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Duchess of Marlborough. In 1715 the Prince and Princess, tried unsuccessfully to get Clayton made secretary to the Treasury under Walpole, but helped him to obtain a place as paymaster of the King's private pensions instead. Clayton purchased the estates of Sundon in 1716 and was returned unopposed as
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Commons, which was a serious blow to Walpole's Administration. Clayton's wife, who
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Marlborough at a by-election on 2 July 1716. The Duke's son-in-law, Lord Sunderland, made him a Lord of the Treasury in 1718. but he was turned out of the post to make room for Walpole's friends on the reunion of the Whig party in 1720. Clayton was elected to the
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auditor general to the Prince of Wales in 1725. In April 1727, he and
Pulteney attacked Walpole's proposals for financing a budget deficit.
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