Lieutenant-General Jasper Clayton (died 27 June 1743) was Governor of Gibraltar.
Military career Born the son of Sir John Clayton and Alice (Bowyer) Clayton, Jasper Clayton lived at Fernhill in Buckinghamshire.The Clayton Family By Henry F. Hepburn, Page 15 He chose to join the army and climbed the ranks to become a lieutenant general. In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, he was present at the Battle of Almansa.Descriptions of the English infantry regiments on 1 January 1703
In 1713 he was made colonel of the 14th Regiment of Foot.Historical Record of the Fourteenth or Buckinghamshire Regiment, Page 22 He commanded a brigade during the suppression of the 1715 Jacobite Rising in Scotland.Lyons, p. 67
He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar in 1727, remaining there until 1730. He fought in the War of Austrian Succession and was killed at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743. He is buried at Wingfield in Buckinghamshire.
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