Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Clayton, Richard (1)
Clayton, Richard, s. Richard, of Adlington, co. Lancaster, arm. Brasenose Coll., matric. 8 Feb., 1721-2, aged 18; king's counsel, chief justice Common Pleas Ireland 1765-70, bencher, Inner Temple, 1761, called to the bar 1729, recorder of Wigan, M.P. in 2 parliaments, 1747-54, of Adlington, died 8 July, 1770.