Peter Clayden

Peter William Clayden (20 October 1827 – 19 February 1902) was a British Nonconformist and Liberal journalist and author.

He edited the Boston Guardian and wrote on political and social topics for the Edinburgh Review and the Cornhill Magazine.

[1] In 1866 he started to write for the Daily News, relinquishing his ministry in 1868 to become a member of its regular staff in London as a leader writer and assistant editor.

Clayden strongly supported William Ewart Gladstone's anti-Turkish stance over the Eastern Question and chronicled his times from a Liberal perspective in various books.

[1] He wrote (or compiled and edited) biographies of a notable uncle and nephew, Samuel Sharpe, Egyptologist and Translator of the Bible (1883), The Early Life of Samuel Rogers (1887)[3] and Rogers and his Contemporaries (1889), described as "a standard Victorian life-and-letters volume, which is to say that it consists of transcripts of manuscript letters interspersed with connecting biographical material supplied by the editor.