John Clayton
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American colonial botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Clayton was an Anglican minister in and for decades clerk for Gloucester County in the Colony of Virginia who is today best known as a plant collector and botanist. He may be confused with several distant family members, including Rev. John Clayton who served as minister at Jamestown and conducted various scientific experiments, before returning to England .