Ernest Henry Collet Clayton (9 November 1889 – 30 December 1946) was a member of the

Queensland Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembly h ...

Biography

Clayton was born in

Tinana In Māori tradition, ''Tinana'' (also known as ''Te Mamaru'') was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The ''Tinana'' canoe, later renamed ''Te Māmaru'', is particularly imp ...

, Queensland, the son of the Rev. John Edward Clayton and his wife Frances Elizabeth (née Mills). He attended

Maryborough Grammar School Maryborough State High School (commonly abbreviated as 'MSHS') is an Independent Public School located in Maryborough, Queensland, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. The school is run by the Queensland State Government, and is split on either si ...

and upon leaving became a

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and grew sugarcane. On 17 March 1915, Booker married Emily Cheyne and together had a son and a daughter. Emily died in 1927 and the next year he married her sister,Family history research
– Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 25 April 2016. Gladys Cheyne (died 1975). He died in December 1946 after a long illness and was buried in the

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the same day.Deceased search
–

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Retrieved 25 April 2016.

Public life

Clayton started his career in politics by being a councillor on the Tinana Shire Council in 1910. He was also a member of the Burrum Shire Council and the

Tiaro Shire Council The Shire of Tiaro was a local government area in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, between the regional cities of Gympie and Hervey Bay about north of the state capital, Brisbane. The shire covered an area of , and existe ...

in the 1910s. He entered Queensland state politics by winning the seat of Wide Bay at the 1920 state elections, defeating the sitting member, Andrew Thompson. He held the seat for the next 26 years, dying in office in December 1946.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clayton, Ernest Henry Collet Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1889 births 1946 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians