CLAYTON, Capt. George Thomas

A seafaring man who bought land in the Waitemata district 1839 and also owned land in Kororareka [Russell], Bay of Islands. Is believed to have been trading in the vicinity of the Waitemata by 1829 and was in Auckland about 1841–44. A lithograph after a drawing by Clayton of Kororareka before its destruction in 1845 is in Hocken, Turnbull, and Nan Kivell Collection ANL Canberra.