Nicholas Clagett the Younger, D.D. (1654–1727), was an English controversialist.

Life

Clagett was the son of the Rev. Nicholas Clagett the elder, of

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, and the younger brother of the controversialist William Clagett. He was baptised 20 May 1654, and was educated at the

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. In 1671 he was admitted to

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, and took the degrees of B.A. and M.A, in due course. In 1680, upon the removal of his brother to the preachership of

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, he was elected preacher of

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, in his room, which office he held for nearly forty-six years. Three years later he was also instituted to the rectory of Thurlow Parva in

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, and in 1693 Dr. John Moore, then bishop of Norwich, who was well acquainted with his abilities and virtues, collated him to the archdeaconry of

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. In 1704 he graduated D.D., and in 1707 he was instituted to the rectory of

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. He died in January 1727, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church in which he had been so long preacher. He is reported to have been a good preacher, and a charitable and blameless man. He had several children, among them being

Nicholas Clagett Nicholas Clagett (14 April 1686 – 8 December 1746) was an English bishop. Life Claggett was from a clerical family of Bury St Edmunds. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge aged 16 in April 1702, graduating B.A. in 1705–6, M.A. in 1 ...

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Works

* ''A Persuasive to Peaceableness and Obedience'', 1683. * ''A Persuasive to an Ingenuous Trial of Opinions in Religion'', 1685. * ''Christian Simplicity'', 1705. * ''Truth defended and Boldness in Error rebuked; or a Vindication of those Christian Commentators who have expounded some Prophecies of the Messias not to be meant only of him'', &c., 1710 (against William Whiston's ''Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies''). * (ed.) ''Sermons'' by his brother William Clagett, collected and published 1689-93

References

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