Clay Baronets
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The Clay Baronetcy, of Fulwell Lodge in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1841 for William Clay
, Member of Parliament
for Tower Hamlets
from 1832 to 1857 and Secretary to the Board of Control
from 1839 to 1841. He was the son of George Clay, a prominent London merchant and shipowner.
Sir William Clay, 1st Baronet
Sir William Clay, 1st Baronet was an English Liberal Party politician.Clay was the son of George Clay, a prominent London merchant and shipowner....
, Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets (UK Parliament constituency)
Tower Hamlets was a parliamentary borough constituency in, Middlesex, England from 1832 to 1885. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
from 1832 to 1857 and Secretary to the Board of Control
Secretary to the Board of Control
The Secretary to the Board of Control was a British government office in the late 18th and early 19th century, supporting the President of the Board of Control, who was responsible for overseeing the British East India Company and generally serving as the chief official in London responsible for...
from 1839 to 1841. He was the son of George Clay, a prominent London merchant and shipowner.
Clay Baronets, of Fulwell Lodge (1841)
- Sir William Clay, 1st BaronetSir William Clay, 1st BaronetSir William Clay, 1st Baronet was an English Liberal Party politician.Clay was the son of George Clay, a prominent London merchant and shipowner....
(1791–1869) - Sir William Dickason Clay, 2nd Baronet (1828–1876)
- Sir George Clay, 3rd Baronet (1831–1878)
- Sir Arthur Temple Felix Clay, 4th Baronet (1842–1928)
- Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Baronet (1871–1941)
- Sir Henry Felix Clay, 6th Baronet (8 February 1909-July 1985). The son of Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Baronet, and his wife Rachel Hobhouse (1883-1981), the eldest daughter of Henry HobhouseHenry Hobhouse (MP)Henry Hobhouse was an English landowner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906....
, Clay was educated at Gresham's SchoolGresham's SchoolGresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt in North Norfolk, England, a member of the HMC.The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a free grammar school for forty boys, following King Henry VIII's dissolution of the Augustinian priory at Beeston Regis...
, Holt, NorfolkHolt, NorfolkHolt is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The town is north of the city of Norwich, west of Cromer and east of King's Lynn. The town is on the route of the A148 King's Lynn to Cromer road. The nearest railway station is in the town of Sheringham where access to the...
, and Trinity College, CambridgeTrinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, graduating MAMaster of Arts (Oxbridge)In the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, Bachelors of Arts of these universities are admitted to the degree of Master of Arts or Master in Arts on application after six or seven years' seniority as members of the university .There is no examination or study required for the degree...
in 1935. He was a partner of McLellan and Partners, consulting engineers, and a Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineering. He succeeded in the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1941. Clay married Phyllis Mary Paramore (died 4 October 1997), a daughter of Richard Horace Paramore, on 4 November 1933. They had three children: Jenny Elizabeth Clay (b. 28 March 1936); Sarah Richenda Clay, (b. 12 August 1938); Sir Richard Henry Clay, 7th Baronet. He died at Cocking, MidhurstMidhurstMidhurst is a market town and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 4,889 in 2001. The town is situated on the River Rother and is home to the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House and the stately Victorian Cowdray Park...
, SussexSussexSussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, in July 1985, aged 76, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Richard.
- Sir Richard Henry Clay, 7th Baronet (b. 1940)