Clay Baronets

The Clay Baronetcy, of Fulwell Lodge in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1841 for William Clay, Member of Parliament for Tower Hamlets from 1832 to 1857 and Secretary to the Board of Control from 1839 to 1841. He was the son of George Clay, a prominent London merchant and shipowner.

Clay Baronets, of Fulwell Lodge (1841)

• Sir William Clay, 1st Baronet (1791–1869)
• Sir William Dickason Clay, 2nd Baronet (1828–1876)
• Sir George Clay, 3rd Baronet (1831–1878)
• Sir Arthur Temple Felix Clay, 4th Baronet (1842–1928)
• Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Baronet (1871–1941)

• Sir Henry Felix Clay, 6th Baronet (8 February 1909-July 1985). The son of Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Baronet, and his wife Rachel Hobhouse (1883-1981), the eldest daughter of Henry Hobhouse, Clay was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating MA in 1935. He was a partner of McLellan and Partners, consulting engineers, and a Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineering. He succeeded in the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1941. Clay married Phyllis Mary Paramore (died 4 October 1997), a daughter of Richard Horace Paramore, on 4 November 1933. They had three children: Jenny Elizabeth Clay (b. 28 March 1936); Sarah Richenda Clay, (b. 12 August 1938); Sir Richard Henry Clay, 7th Baronet. He died at Cocking, Midhurst, Sussex, in July 1985, aged 76, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Richard.

• Sir Richard Henry Clay, 7th Baronet (b. 1940)

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets
• 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
• The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, July 6, 1878; Issue 12555.