Samuel (2nd) Clayton was born in 1783 in Dublin City, Ireland. His parents were Benjamin (1st) Clayton & Eleanor Creathorne.

Samuel died in 1853 in Gunning, NSW Active Period c.1793-c.1851 1 October 1824-1853

Samuel (2nd) Clayton married Miss Jane MAGUIRE on the 20th October, 1802. in Ireland.

On the 22nd Februry, 1805 Dr Benjamin (3rd) CLAYTON was born in Ireland.

He entered the Dublin Society's School in 1766 and won prizes for "pattern drawing" in 1769 and 1770. He worked as an engraver in Dublin for many years, at first in Great Britain Street and afterwards, from 1807, at No. 1 Ryder's Row.

In Ferrar's "View of Dublin," 1796, is a "View of Loughlinstown Camp" and "A View of Sarah Bridge," after a drawing by J. H. Campbell. He etched some political and other caricatures, such as "The City Fox running away with the Farmer's Goose," etc., and did general commercial engraving; he also engraved clocks and mathematical instruments, and in 1800 the seal of the Corporation of the Borough of Baltinglass.

He died in Ryder's Row in 1814. He was twice married. By his first wife he was father of Samuel, Benjamin (2nd), and Robert Clayton, who all followed their father's profession.

Benjamin (1st) Clayton married Miss Eleanor Creathorne.

Benjamin (1st) Clayton married Miss Mary Woods. His Servant Maid His second wife, his servant maid Mary Woods, whom he married in 1812, survived him. - (Ref- http://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/benjamin-clayton-1.php).

1. Samuel Clayton - parents Benjamin (1st) & Eleanor Clayton.

2. Benjamin (2nd) Clayton - (b. 1786, d. 1862)

3. Robert (1st) Clayton - (fl. c. 1834)

Miss Emma Johnson (in 1807).

1st October, 1824, and married Miss Jane Lofthouse by special licence. She was born in 1788.

Note.. There are three Reference Numbers relating to his Sydney Marriage..

V182412 149/1824 CLAYTON, SAMUEL married LOFTHOUSE, JANE in CJ - Church of England Sydney, St James'

V182421 149/1824 CLAYTON, SAMUEL married LOFTHOUSE, JANE in CJ - Church of England Sydney, St James'

V18243429 3B/1824 CLAYTON, SAMUEL married LOFTHOUSE, JANE in CA - Church of England Sydney, St Phillip's

1830 - Her death - Family Notices - DIED On Sunday, at her residence in Pitt Street, Sydney, Mrs. CLAYTON, wife of Mr. SAMUEL CLAYTON, Engraver and Silversmith. - (Ref- The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838)(about) Previous issue Wednesday 15 December 1830). - (Ref- NSW BDM V18309353 2C/1830), AGE 42.

Samuel's Calling/trade: Artist (Painter), (Printmaker), Portraitist, engraver, art teacher and silversmith.

His age on arrival was 33 years.

Name Samuel Clayton Gender Male - Roles Artist (Painter)

Artist (Printmaker)

Artist 1816-1823

Arrival 1816 (Arrived New South Wales in the 'Surrey'.)

Residence 1853 Gunning, NSW

c.1835-c.1845 Windsor, NSW

c.1832-c.1834 24 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW

1816-1835 Sydney, NSW

1783-1816 Dublin, Ireland

Training (Trained by Benjamin Clayton), Dublin, Ireland

Other Occupation Silversmith (ANZSIC code: 2591)

Art teacher (ANZSIC code: 8022)

Engraver (ANZSIC code: 6924)

Is Indigenous

No Languages English

Initial Record Data Source. The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 - (Ref- http://www.daao.org.au/bio/samuel-clayton/).

S. CLAYTON, Engraver, Likeness Painter, and Teacher of Drawing, No. 23, Pitt-street, Sydney, has now ready for practice a much improved and systematic Machine for taking Likenesses, in profile, on a most correct principle, and in a few minutes, at ten shillings each, on Bristol card, such as is now the London style, and particularly portable, as they may be conveyed in letters to relatives or friends, without injury, to any part of the world.

N. B.-Jewellery and Silver Work made and repaired, Old Gold and Silver bought or exchanged. - (Ref- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842)(about) Previous issue Saturday 4 November 1820 Page 2).

1822 - NOTICE.-Whereas several well-executed FORGERIES, on the LACHLAN and WATERLOO MILLS Company's One and Two Dollar Notes, have been detected from their OWN Plate and Paper, left in the Hands of Mr. Samuel Clayton, their Engraver; the Public are respectfully requested to send in all their Note9, of those Amounts, as early as possible, to my Office, in Bligh-street, Hunter-street.

N. B.-Great Inconvenience having occurred owing tothe unfinished State of the Buildings in George street, all the Company's Notes will be consolidated, for the present, at my Office, between the Hours of Ten and Three o'CIock. T. W. M. WINDER. - (Ref- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842)(about) Previous issue Friday 30 August 1822 Page 12).

1825 - Newspaper Ad - S Clayton, Engraver, Jeweller and Silversmith.

No. 23, Pitt-street, Sydney.

ON SALE, as above, the following ARTICLES, comprising gold seals, chains, keys, brooches, wedding-rings, pins, ear ings, lockets, and neck chains; silver cups, watches, table, desert, tea, salt, and egg spoons.

Also, a variety of ladies' fancy work-boxes and purses, and silver thimbles; French perfumery, See. &c. all of which will be sold on moderate Terms.

N. B.- Best Price given for Old Gold and Silver, Diamonds, Pearls, &c, &c Gold and Silver Work repaired. - (Ref- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842)(about) Previous issue Thursday 19 May 1825).

1826 - S. CLAYTON, ENGRAVER, COPPER-PLATE PRINTER, JEWELLER, & SILVERSMITH,

No. 23, PITT-STREET, SYDNEY,

BEGS Leave to return his Thanks to his Friends and Customers, both in Sydney and the Country, for the liberal Support they have afforded him since his first Establishment in the above Branches, and trusts that he will still merit the Continuance of their Patronage, by his strict Attention to their Orders, and by keeping for Sale a choice and fashionable Assortment of Articles of Jewellery, Sec. on the most reasonable Terms, comprising gold seals, chains, keys, brooches, wedding-rings, pins, ear-rings, lockets and neck chains, silver cups, watches, table,-dessert,tea,salt, and egg-spoons. Also, a variety of ladies' fancy work-boxes &urses, silver thimbles, Frenen perfumery, &c. &c.

N.B.-Best Price for Old Gold and Silver, Diamonds, Pearls, &c. Sec. - Gold and Silver Work repaired. - (Ref- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842)(about) Previous issue Wednesday 17 May 1826).

Tried: 1815 - Dublin City - Details - Irish Rebel - Sentence: 7 yrs.

CLAYTON, Samuel. Per "Surrey", 1816; engraver

1817 Engraver of Sydney. Petition for mitigation of sentence (Fiche 3175; 4/1850 p.59)

1820 Oct 5 Juror at inquest on unknown man held at Sydney (Reel 6021; 4/1819 pp.3-4)

1821 Jan 29 Memorial of his son Benjamin (Fiche 3001; 4/1821 No.24)

1822 Mar 9 Recommended petition of Henry McKean, William Tyson and other convicts at the Prisoners' Barracks for permission to perform a play (Reel 6052; 4/1752 p.31a)

1824 Sep 20 Affidavits re his marriage to Jane Lofthouse (Reel 6028; 2/8305 pp.95-8)

1825 May 9 Signature in recommendation of Thomas William Middleton's memorial re retaining the situation of Inspector of Cattle (Reel 6062; 4/1782 p.48c)

1825 Jul 13 Warrant on the Colonial Treasurer for brass seals supplied to the Excise Department (Reel 6070; 4/6037 p.35)

1825 Nov 26 Memorial (Fiche 3124; 4/1840C No.130 pp.725-30). Reply, 30 Nov (Reel 6016; 4/3516 p.57)

1825 Nov 30 On list of persons who have received orders for grants of land (Fiche 3266; 9/2652 p.87)

(Ref - Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825) - (Ref- Banner Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825).

CLAYTON, Samuel - Surrey 1816 - CP 31 Jan 1818 [4/4430] 774 - 120 - (Ref- http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexsearch/searchhits.aspx?table=Index to Convict Pardons&ID=21&query=clayton&frm=0).

CLAYTON, Samuel - Surry 1816 - 200/2790 - 29 Sep 1824 - Certificate of Freedom - [4/4423; - Reel 601]- CP 1040 - (Ref- http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexsearch/searchhits.aspx?table=Convict+Index&ID=65&query=clayton&frm=0).

1838 - CSreLand - 2/7826 1110 CLAYTON, Samuel 1829 1838

(His son) - Records show that - CLAYTON, Benjamin. Came free per "Surrey", 1816; son of Samuel Clayton, engraver 1821 Oct 30 Memorial (Fiche 3035; 4/1826 No.24). Reply, 13 Nov (Reel 6008; 4/3504A p.60) 1822 Memorial (Fiche 3043; 4/1829 No.56)

Samuel Clayton arrived on the convict ship: Surrey I (2) [1816]. - (Ref- http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/cgi-bin/irish/irish.cgi?requestType=Search2&id=4222)

In 1816 the Surrey, commanded by Thomas Raine, sailed from London, departing Cork on 14 July and travelling via Rio de Janiero on 26 September reached Sydney after 159 days on 20 December with 150 male prisoners. The markedly improved treatment for the prisoners under the enlightened captaincy of Thomas Raine and the presence of naval surgeon John F Bayley were reflected by the safe arrival of all prisoners embarked. The Surrey returned to London via Batavia, Calcutta and Brazil.

The Surrey, or Surry, had an especially long career in the convict service and later as a trader, becoming one of the best-known vessels to visit Australia.

1820 - Newspaper Samuel Clayton founds the first Australian Masonic Lodge in Sydney. , 1848: - (Ref- The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Saturday 6 January 1990 p 12 Article... 1820).

Note that the Reverend Marsden, who was not a Freemason, had been in New Zealand two years prior to establish a Mission Station. We now come to Bro Samuel Clayton, the Father of Freemasons in the Colony (Burne). Burne relates that Clayton, a Past Master of Lodge No 6 in Dublin, who having committed an offence against the law, was sentenced to transportation to New South Wales. He brought with him a letter of introduction from the Grand Lodge of Ireland, which he presented to the Lodge of Social and Military Virtues in February 1817. The lodge replied by stating that while lamenting the unfortunate circumstances by which he had been doomed to reside in Australia, they could not receive him as a Brother Mason, but, Bro Clayton, an engraver and printer in Ireland before his brush with the law, was engaged by the lodge to print their set of By-laws and to design and engrave plates for a lodge seal and certificates. Clayton also found employment engraving the plates for the first set of paper money used in the colony. The motto of the lodge was Libens Solvit Merito Votum (note these being the same initials as in the lodge’s name) which means “willingly and deservedly in fulfilment of a vow”.

In July 1817 the Regiment of the 46th Foot was relieved by the 48th Foot, to which was attached the Military Lodge No 218 with an Irish Travelling Warrant. This new lodge, in very short time, had initiated twenty-four civilians, which prompted them to petition to the Grand Lodge of Ireland for a Dispensation to form the first stationary lodge in Australia. The petition was granted and the Australian Social Lodge No 260 was constituted on the 12th August 1820 with a Warrant dated 6th January 1820. - (Ref- http://www.mastermason.com/hbresearch/pages re20.htm).

See the web link below.

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Artist (Painter), (Printmaker), Portraitist, engraver, art teacher and silversmith born in Ireland. Transported to NSW, reputedly for forgery, he prospered in the colony.

Biographical Data b. 1783 Dublin, Ireland

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Associates 14 people

Groups 2 groups

Works 11 works

Exhibitions

Collections 3 collections

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Biography (855 words)

portraitist, engraver, art teacher and silversmith, was the eldest of the three sons of the Dublin engraver Benjamin Clayton and his first wife. All three Clayton sons were trained as engravers by their father and worked in Dublin. Prints by Samuel were included in Anthologia Hibernica (Dublin 1793-94) and he is known to have painted miniatures. Samuel was transported to New South Wales from Dublin for seven years, reputedly for forgery, arriving in the Surrey in 1816. He first advertised his services in the Sydney Gazette on 4 January 1817, offering to take likenesses 'either in full or in profile’. Ten days later he was proposing to give instruction 'in ornamental painting and drawing’ as well as engraving and miniature painting. On 15 August 1818 he was stating that he had 'A variety of jewellery and silver work on hand’ and was buying old silver.

Clayton had engraved the banknotes for the Bank of New South Wales when it opened its doors on 8 April 1817, having been directed in February to prepare the copperplates needed for the bank’s five denominations (ranging from 2s 6d to £5). He also engraved the first banknotes for the Van Diemen’s Land Bank and the $1 and $2 notes for the Lachlan and Waterloo Mills Companies in 1822. Another of his multifarious activities was making silhouette portraits. On 4 November 1820 he advertised in the Sydney Gazette that he now had 'ready for practice, a much improved machine for taking likenesses, in profile, on a most correct principle, and in a few minutes, at ten shillings each, on Bristol Card, such as is now the London style, and particularly portable, as they may be conveyed in letters to relatives or friends, without injury, to any part of the world’.

When visiting Australia en route to China in about 1818, Charles Izard Manigault of the Charleston, South Carolina, family, wrote: 'I had some of my visiting cards engraved by one of those talented convicts, S. Clayton of New South Wales, by placing my signature with its usual flourish in his hand, he imitated it and engraved it perfectly, for he was sent here from England for forging the name of another … too tricky to remain at home. He also did several hundred of my Coat of Arms, now my book plates’. (Manigault later had the coat of arms copied onto a porcelain plate, or dinner service, in China.)

Clayton received his ticket of leave on 1 October 1824, and married Jane Lofthouse by special licence two weeks later. This was his third marriage. In Ireland he had married Jane Maguire, then Emma Johnson (in 1807). His colonial wife also predeceased him, in 1829. Two years later Clayton was offering his business for sale, including 'a brass machine for taking profile likenesses, and a camera obscura’, yet he continued to work in Sydney. An advertisement in July 1832 detailed a lithographic press 'with a set of very superior German stones (many of which are 16 × 22 inches [40 × 55 cm])’ which Mr Clayton, engraver and jeweller of 24 Pitt Street, had for sale. He was still working as an engraver at this address in December 1833 and possibly in 1834. He moved to Windsor in 1835, presumably to be near his son by his first marriage, Dr Benjamin Clayton . That he had prospered in the colony is evident by the fact that in 1839 he was one of the proprietors of the Bank of New South Wales. When he died at Gunning in 1853 he left an estate worth £1000 to Benjamin.

Apart from an oil profile portrait of the engineer William Roberts (1851, QVMAG) and his stamp designs (including the original 'harbour bridge’ stamp of 1849), most of Clayton’s surviving work is on silver. Attributed to him are two trowels (ML), one engraved for Lieutenant-Governor Erskine in 1823 as a present from the Sydney Masonic Lodge, the other presented to Governor Macquarie after he laid the foundation stone of the Sydney Roman Catholic Chapel with it in 1821. Both incorporate masonic details in the engraving. Three medals presented to students at the Sydney Grammar School between 1822 and 1824 are also known, the first inscribed to Francis Lord by his schoolmaster, Laurence Halloran, the second to Henry Halloran and the third to Charles Driver. Spoons marked 'S.C.’ with an anchor are in private collections. It has been suggested that an Irish two-handled cup presented to Mr Emmett as owner of the winning horse Rob Roy in the Hyde Park race of 1819 was engraved by Clayton, but this remains unproven.

Clayton gave evidence at the trial of the silversmith Alexander Dick in 1829, stating that he 'rather thought’ the dessert spoons Dick was accused of receiving had been made locally. The trial records include a letter from James Garfield, a London silversmith transported for forging hallmarks, who stated that neither James Robertson (another witness) nor Clayton ever manufactured silver plate, that they were dealers only. Yet Clayton was certainly an active engraver, and as he was buying old silver in 1818, he possibly made some pieces. Writers:Houstone, John Neville, Richard Date written:1992Last updated:2011 - (Ref- http://www.daao.org.au/bio/samuel-clayton/biography/).

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S. Clayton, engraver, copper-plate printer, jeweller & silversmith.

Author - Clayton, S.

Source - Sydney Gazette (Sydney)

Details - 4 February1826, p.3, col.5.] - Publication date - 4 February, 1826

Language - English

Country of context - Australia

S. CLAYTON, ENGRAVER, COPPER-PLATE PRINTER, JEWELLER, & SILVERSMITH.

No. 23, PITT-STREET, SYDNEY,

BEGS Leave to return his Thanks to his Friends and Customers, both in Sydney and the Country, for the liberal Support they have afforded him since his first Establishment in the above Branches, and trusts that he will still merit the constituance of their Patronage, by his strict Attention to their Orders, and by keeping for Sale a choice and fashionable assortment of Articles of Jewellery, &c. on the most reasonable Terms, comprising gold seals, chains, keys, brooches, wedding-rings, pins, ear-rings, lockets and neck chains, silver cups, watches, table, dessert, tea, salt, and egg spoons. Also, a variety of ladies fancy work boxes, purses, silver thimbles, French perfumery, &c. &c.

N.B. - Best Price for Old gold and Silver, Diamonds, Pearls, &c. &c. Gold and Silver Work repaired. [Sydney Gazette (Sydney), 4 February1826, p.3, col.5.] - (Ref- http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/references/8650/).