Educated at Rugby, he was a Warrington solicitor and MP for Newton, Lancashire (1818-25) who agreed to purchase Newstead Abbey in 1812 and then paid the forfeit. He was the father of Thomas Legh Claughton (1808-1892), bishop of St Albans.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Claughton:

Lord Byron to William Bankes, 28 September 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Annabella Milbanke to Lady Melbourne, [June? 1813] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, [July 1814] in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 3 August 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 12 August 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 14 September 1814 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 7 October 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 15 December 1814 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 18 March 1815 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)