Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon
Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon | |
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| Born | Charlotte Dyve 11 December c.1679 |
| Died | 1 January 1742 Cleveland Row, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Courtier |
| Spouse | William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon |
Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon (11 December c.1679 – 1 January 1742) was a British Lady in Waiting. She is known as the influential favourite of queen regent Caroline.
Life
Charlotte Dyve was the daughter of John Dyve, clerk of the Privy Council and Frances Wolseley, and granddaughter of Sir Lewis Dyve of Bromham in Bedfordshire.[1] She married William Clayton, a Treasury official,[2] at some date before 1715. In 1735 she became Lady Sundon when her husband was made first Baron Sundon. They had no children.
Charlotte Clayton was a woman of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1714 until 1737. She enjoyed a lot of influence with the Queen, who served as regent during the absence of the king, and she was mistrusted by Robert Walpole who suspected that it was her opinions that were making the Queen uncooperative in state affairs. It was alleged that she even proposed that she and Walpole could rule the country. The Queen's death was a great blow to her, and in her last years she was afflicted with a painful tumour as well as (according to gossip) bouts of insanity.[3]
References
- ^ Aitken, George Atherton (1898). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Sedgwick, Romney (1970). "Clayton, William (1671-1752)". In Sedgwick, Romney (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. London: HMSO. ISBN 9780118800983.
- ^ Carter, Philip. "Clayton , Charlotte, Lady Sundon (c.1679–1742)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5568. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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