William Clayton (after 1650 – 7 July 1715) was an English merchant and politician from Liverpool.
After serving as a common councillor from 1685 he was elected Mayor of Liverpool for 1689–90, and then became an alderman of the city.
[2] After the Union with Scotland, he was elected as a Liverpool MP to the new House of Commons of Great Britain from 1713 to 1715.
Sailing on the 16 October 1699, under Captain William Webster, for Africa, bartering for 275 slaves, and offloading 220 survivors in Barbados, on 18 September 1700, before sailing for Liverpool, with a cargo of tobacco and sugar, on 24 October 1700, as the first known ship of Liverpool to enter the Atlantic trade.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (1707–1800) representing an English constituency is a stub.