Sir Henry Clay, 6th Baronet

Sir Henry Felix Clay, 6th Baronet, MA (Cantab.), born 8 February 1909, died Cocking, Midhurst, Sussex, July 1985, was an English engineer.

Background and early life

The son of Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Baronet (1871-1941), and his wife Rachel Hobhouse (1883-1981), the eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse MP, Clay was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating MA in 1935.

Career

Clay was a partner of McLellan and Partners, consulting engineers, and a Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineering. He succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Clay, of Fulwell Lodge, Middlesex (created 1841) on 11 November 1941.

Family

On 4 November 1933, he married Phyllis Mary Paramore (died 4 October 1997), a daughter of Richard Horace Paramore, and they had three children:
*Jenny Elizabeth Clay, born 28 March 1936
*Sarah Richenda Clay, born 12 August 1938
*Sir Richard Henry Clay, 7th Baronet, born 2 June 1940

References

* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p22651.htm#i226510 Sir Henry Felix Clay, 6th Baronet, at thepeerage.com]
*"Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage", 107th edition, ed. Charles Mosley (Burke's Peerage Genealogical Books Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 812