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
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aged 16 in April 1702, graduating
B.A.
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in 1705–6,
M.A.
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in 1709 and
D.D. in 1724.
He was appointed
Archdeacon of Buckingham
The Archdeacon of Buckingham is the senior ecclesiastical officer in charge of the Church of England in Buckinghamshire.
The archdeacon has statutory oversight over the ancient Archdeaconry of Buckingham, which has existed since (at latest) the 11 ...
on 1 September 1722. After this he became Dean of Rochester on 8 February 1724, succeeding on the death of Samuel Pratt, and was elected
bishop of St. David's
The Bishop of St Davids is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids.
The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the city of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, ...
, ''congé d'élire'' issued on 17 December 1731. He was allowed to hold ''in commendam'' the rectories of
Shobrooke
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and of
Overton in the
diocese of Winchester
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. On 2 August 1742 he was translated, becoming
Bishop of Exeter. He died on 8 Dec. 1746, and was buried at
St. Margaret's, Westminster
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, with no epitaph.
Works
He published ''Articles of Enquiry for the Archdeaconry of Buckingham,'' 1732, and eleven sermons. One was preached before the House of Lords on the anniversary of Charles I's martyrdom, another on the consecration of Bishop White. A ''Persuasive to an ingenuous trial of Opinions in Religion'' (1685), sometimes ascribed to him, belongs rather to his father.
Family
He was son of
Nicholas Clagett the Younger, minister at Bury St. Edmunds,
and nephew of the preacher
William Clagett, both sons of the Puritan
Nicholas Clagett the elder.
References
Sources
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1746 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Bishops of St Davids
Bishops of Exeter
Archdeacons of Buckingham
Year of birth uncertain
Burials at St Margaret's, Westminster
Deans of Rochester
18th-century Church of England bishops
18th-century Welsh Anglican bishops
17th-century Anglican theologians
18th-century Anglican theologians