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The murder of George Floyd in the United States on 25 May 2020 led to Black Lives Matter protests around the globe, including in the United Kingdom. A demonstration in Bristol organised by the Black Lives Matter movement culminated in the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston due to Colston's involvement in the slave trade. The toppling of Colstons' statue also led to calls for other statues commemorating individuals with a connection to the slave trade to be removed. Clayton was a shareholder in, and assistant to, the slave-trading Royal African Company which founded in 1660. On 11 June 2020, a joint statement from the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust announced that Clayton's statue, together with that of Thomas Guy, would be removed from public view.
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