Philip T.B. ('Tubby') Clayton

CLAYTON, Philip Thomas Byard (‘Tubby’).  b. Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 12 December  1885; d. 16 December 1972.  Both parents, who were first cousins, had ‘Byard’ in their name: his father managed a sugar plantation. Clayton sailed as an infant with his family to England, where he grew up and gained an education at St Paul’s School, London, and Exeter College, Oxford (BA 1907, BA in Theology, First Class, 1909).  Following graduation, he received ordination in the Church of England (deacon 1910, priest 1911), and began his service as a curate in the naval town of Portsea.   The outbreak of the First World War caused Clayton to reconsider his calling, and he enlisted as a chaplain in...