an English Congregational minister, was born in London, April 9, 1783. He early became imbued with the intelligent and pious characteristics of his parents; devoted himself to the service of God, and was put under special private instruction with the ministry in view, which. was supplemented by a course at Hoxton Academy. In 1802 he became copastor at Southampton, and in 1804 was ordained pastor at Walworth, where he was a faithful, devoted, conscientious, and successful minister for over half a century. His last years were spent at Upminster, where he died, July-14, 1862. As a public man Mr. Clayton was well known for his .advocacy of all kinds of religious enterprises; as prompt to speak from the platform as the pulpit; delivering his addresses with a tact :and impressiveness which did equal credit to his head and heart. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1863, p. 219.<\/p>\n
Clayton, George an English Congregational minister, was born in London, April 9, 1783. He early became imbued with the intelligent and pious characteristics of his parents; devoted himself to the service of God, and was put under special private instruction with the ministry in view, which. was supplemented by a course at Hoxton Academy. In … Continue reading “Clayton, George”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}