Thomas Clayton ca.1612-1693
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Sir Thomas CLAYTON ca.1612-1693
Biographical Note
Son of Thomas Clayton, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. BA Pembroke College, Oxford 1629, MA 1631, BM 1635, MD 1639; Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1645. He practised as a physician during the Civil War and Interregnum; he was knighted in 1661 and made Warden of Merton College. He was MP for Oxford University in 1660.
Books
Clayton bequeathed his books to Merton.
Sources
- History of Parliament.
- Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
- Morgan, P., Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian, 2nd edn, Oxford, 1980.
- The history of Merton College Library.