Robert Clavering (1676 – 21 July 1747) was an English bishop and

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Life

He graduated B.A. from the

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, and then went to Lincoln College, Oxford. He was Fellow and tutor of

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, in 1701. In 1714 he was rector of Bocking, Essex. In 1715 he became Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford.''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' He became rector of

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in 1719. He was

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from 1724 to 1729, and then Bishop of Peterborough from 1729 to his death.

Works

At Oxford he published a translation of selections from the ''

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'' of

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: "Yad," "Hilkot Talmud Torah" and "Teshubah" (1705).

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clavering, Robert 1676 births 1747 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Fellows of University College, Oxford Bishops of Llandaff Bishops of Peterborough Deans of Hereford Christian Hebraists 18th-century Church of England bishops Regius Professors of Hebrew (University of Oxford) Deans of Bocking 18th-century Welsh Anglican bishops 17th-century Anglican theologians 18th-century Anglican theologians