14 Facts About Gilbert Clayton

Gilbert Clayton was educated at the Isle of Wight College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Gilbert Clayton become an officer in the Royal Artillery in October 1895.

Gilbert Clayton was part of the forces sent to the Sudan during the closing stages of the Mahdist War, seeing action in the Battle of Atbara.

Gilbert Clayton then served in Egypt, but in 1910 he retired and left the army to work as private secretary to the Governor-General of Sudan, Sir Francis Reginald Wingate.

Gilbert Clayton became Director of Intelligence, and was promoted to temporary brigadier general and later to lieutenant general, dated 7 October 1917.

Gilbert Clayton made the perfect leader for such a band of wild men as we were.

Gilbert Clayton was calm, detached, clear-sighted, of unconscious courage in assuming responsibility.

Gilbert Clayton was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything.

Gilbert Clayton was Civil Secretary of Palestine from 1922 to 1925, at which point he was briefly acting High Commissioner.

Gilbert Clayton was then involved in negotiations with Arab rulers for the Treaty of Jeddah ; he was an envoy to the Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd, tasked to undertake a mission to Yemen to negotiate with its ruler Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din.

Gilbert Clayton was involved in negotiations for a new Anglo-Iraqi Treaty.

Gilbert Clayton's younger brother, Iltyd Nicholl Gilbert Clayton, was a British Army officer.

In 1912, Gilbert Clayton married Enid Caroline Thorowgood in London, with the ceremony being conducted by Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, the Bishop of Khartoum.

On 11 September 1929, Gilbert Clayton succumbed to the consequences of a heart attack in Baghdad at the age of 54.