death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
salisbury , england june 10 , 1676 yorkshire , england english unknown master of university college , oxford richard clayton -lrb- academic -rrb-
 richard clayton academic , priest
richard clayton -lrb- academic -rrb-

richard clayton -lrb- died 10 june 1676 -rrb- was a canon , oxford academic and administrator .
he was master of university college , oxford from 1665 until his death in 1676 .
clayton was originally from yorkshire and matriculated at university college in 1618 .
in 1629 , he was elected as a percy fellow at university college in oxford .
he was bursar of the college from 1631 -- 34 and 1636 -- 37 .
he resigned from his fellowship in 1639 to escape from the civil war .
clayton 's son , john , maticulated at university college in 1657 .
he became a prebendary and then canon of salisbury cathedral from 1661 .
he spent more time in salisbury than in oxford .
he became master of university college in 1665 .
from 1670 to the end of his mastership , there was great concentration on rebuilding at the college .
in 1670 , funding for completion of the library was solicited .
between 1670 -- 74 , funds were sought for completing the main quadrangle .
during clayton 's time as master , john radcliffe was the pupil of obadiah walker , the next master of university college .
john radcliffe was subsequently physician to the king and a major benefactor of the college , including the radcliffe quad , immediately to the east of the main quad .
clayton died in salisbury in 1676 , while still master of university college .
