William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon, of Sundon Hall, Sundon, Bedfordshire, was a British Treasury official and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1716 to 1752.
Lord Sundon by Godfrey Kneller
Woodstock, sometimes called New Woodstock, was a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom named after the town of Woodstock in the county of Oxfordshire.
William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon
…paymaster of the King's private pensions instead. Clayton purchased the estates of Sundon in 1716 and was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Woodstock by Marlborough at a by-election on 2 July 1716. The Duke's son-in-law, Lord Sunderland, made him a Lord of the Treasury in 1718. but he was turned out…
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