Thomas Legh Claughton

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Thomas Legh Claughton (6 November 1808–25 July 1892) was a British academic, poet and churchman. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford. He won the 1829 Newdigate Prize with a poem Voyages of Discovery to the Polar Regions. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1852-7.

He was ordained in 1834, and became Bishop of Rochester in 1867. Subsequently he was the first Bishop of St Albans (1877-1890).