The statue of Robert Clayton stands at the entrance to the North Wing of St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth, London.

As President of St Thomas', he was responsible for the complete rebuilding of the hospital, and associated church in the late 17th century.

[1] Working firstly as a land agent and subsequently as a banker, he made a large fortune such that, by the 1670s, the diarist John Evelyn, described him as "this prince of citizens, there never having been any, who, for the stateliness of his palace, prodigious feasting, and magnificence, exceeded him".

[2] Clayton became an M.P., served on innumerable parliamentary committees and in 1692 was made President of St Thomas' Hospital, an office he held until his death in 1707.

[4] Following the complete reconstruction of the hospital in 1872, on a site further up the River Thames at Lambeth,[5] the statue was moved to its present position.