Sir Kenrick Clayton, 2nd Baronet

Sir Kenrick Clayton, 2nd Baronet (c. 1713 – 10 March 1769) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1734 to 1769.

Clayton was the oldest surviving son of Sir William Clayton, 1st Baronet (died 1744), and the brother of William Clayton of Harleyford. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

His father was the nephew and heir of Sir Robert Clayton, a banker and former Lord Mayor of London who had been described "the wealthiest commoner in England". He owned the manor of Bletchingley, and thereby controlling both seats in the parliamentary borough of Bletchingley. William returned Kenrick as a Member of Parliament (MP) for this rotten borough at the 1734 general election, and Kenrick held the seat until his death.

He had inherited the baronetcy on his father's death 1744, along with his father's controlling interest both in Bletchingley and in the parliamentary borough of Great Marlow.

On his death in 1769 he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Robert. Robert died childless, and the baronetcy passed to Kenrick Clayton's nephew William, son of the first baronet's younger son William.

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