Joseph Clayton
Encyclopedia
Joseph Clayton was an English freelance journalist and biographer. A writer of numerous books, he covered areas of trade union and socialist history, but also religious figures and history.
. He became an organiser of the Independent Labour Party
, and supported socialist causes. In 1896 he was an ILP member in Leeds.
He edited The New Age
in 1907, successor to Arthur Compton-Rickett, before it was sold to a group backing A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson
; Clayton knew Orage from the ILP. He was a convert to Catholicism in 1910. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Life
He was a Christian Socialist as an undergraduate at the University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. He became an organiser of the Independent Labour Party
Independent Labour Party
The Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in Britain established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932, when it voted to leave...
, and supported socialist causes. In 1896 he was an ILP member in Leeds.
He edited The New Age
The New Age
The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship of A. R. Orage from 1907 to 1922. It began life in 1894 as a publication of the Christian Socialist movement; but in 1907 as a radical weekly edited by Joseph Clayton, it was struggling...
in 1907, successor to Arthur Compton-Rickett, before it was sold to a group backing A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson
Holbrook Jackson
George Holbrook Jackson was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.-Biography:...
; Clayton knew Orage from the ILP. He was a convert to Catholicism in 1910. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Works
- Father Dolling (1902) on Robert William Radclyffe DollingRobert William Radclyffe DollingRobert William Radclyffe Dolling was an Anglican divine, known as Father Dolling.-Life:Dolling was born at Magheralin, County Down, and educated at Harrow and Cambridge. From 1878 to 1882 he was warden of one of the houses of the Postmen's League, started by Father Stanton of St. Alban's, Holborn...
- Grace Marlow (1903) novel
- John Blankset's Business (1904) novel
- Bishop Westcott (1906)
- The Bishops as Legislators (1906)
- The Truth about the Lords: our new nobility, 1857-1907 (1907)
- Robert Owen, Pioneer of Social Reforms (1908)
- Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt (1909)
- The True Story of Jack Cade (1910)
- Leaders of the People: studies in democratic history (1910)
- The Rise of the Democracy (1911)
- Robert Kett and the Norfolk Rising (1912)
- Co-operation and the Trade Unions (1912)
- Father Stanton of St Albans, Holborn (1913)
- Trade Unions (1913)
- Economics For Christians (1924)
- The Historic Basis of Anglicanism: A short survey of the foundations of the Anglican Communion (1925)
- The Rise and Decline of Socialism in Great Britain 1884-1924 (1926)
- Continuity in the Church Of England (1928)
- St Hugh of Lincoln (1931)
- Sir Thomas More. A Short Study (1933)
- The Protestant Reformation in Great Britain (1934)