Baptised November 1671 in Newmarket. Treasury official and MP 1716-52. Bought the estates of Sundon in Ardagh, Ireland in 1716 and was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1735 as Baron Sundon.
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William Clayton, Baron Sundon
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