Sir Gilbert Henry Claughton, 1st Baronet (21 February 1856 – 27 June 1921), was an

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businessman and politician. Born in Kidderminster,

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Claughton was the son of the Right Reverend Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of St Albans, by the Honourable Julia Susannah Ward, daughter of William Ward, 10th Baron Ward. He was Mayor of Dudley between 1891 and 1894 and one of the original members of the Staffordshire County Council. He was an

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of the council between 1895 and 1921. In 1906 he stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative for Dudley. From 1911 to 1921 he served as Chairman of the

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. He was created a

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, of

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in the Parish of Dudley in the

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, on 4 July 1912. He died in June 1921, aged 65, when the title became extinct.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Claughton, Gilbert Henry 1856 births 1921 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Mayors of places in the West Midlands (county)