Sir John Harold Clapham (1873–1946) by Lafayette, 1926 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Martin Daunton
Clapham, Sir John Harold (1873–1946), economic historian, was born at Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, on 13 September 1873, the younger son of John Clapham, jeweller and silversmith, and his second wife, Mary Jane, daughter of John Chambers, accountant, of Manchester. There were two sons and a daughter....