drayton-in-hales

Updated: May 19, 2025

In the market town of Drayton-in-Hales, better known as Market-Drayton, in Shropshire, there lived, in the reign of George the First, a Mr. Richard Clive a man whose comparatively meagre abilities were divided between the profession of the law and the cares of a small and not very valuable estate.

Justin McCarthy - A History of the Four Georges, Volume II