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Robert Clavering

Robert Clavering

English bishop (1676–1747)

For the politician, see Robert Clavering (MP).

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

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Life

He graduated B.A. from the University of Edinburgh, and then went to Lincoln College, Oxford. He was Fellow and tutor of University College, in 1701. In 1714 he was rector of Bocking, Essex. In 1715 he became Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford.[1][2][3]

He became rector of Marsh Gibbon in 1719.[4] He was Bishop of Llandaff from 1724 to 1729, and then Bishop of Peterborough from 1729 to his death.[5]

Works

At Oxford he published a translation of selections from the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides: "Yad," "Hilkot Talmud Torah" and "Teshubah" (1705).[6][7]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Mordechai Feingold, Oriental Studies, p. 467 in Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford (1984).
  2. [2]
    Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  3. [3]
    "Canons of Christ Church: Sixth prebend | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Parishes : Marsh Gibbon | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Bishops of Peterborough". peterowen.org.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  6. [6]
    "CLAVERING, ROBERT – JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  7. [7]
    "OXFORD – JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
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