Robert Clavering

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

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 1728, 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

↑ 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).
↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35332
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62568
↑ http://peterowen.org.uk/bishops/peterborough.html
↑ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=529&letter=C
↑ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=194&letter=O

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Tyler	Bishop of Llandaff 1724–1728	Succeeded by John Harris
Preceded by White Kennett	Bishop of Peterborough 1729–1747	Succeeded by John Thomas

Deans of Hereford

High Medieval	Ralph Geoffrey Richard Hugh de Breusa Hugh de Mapenor Henry Thomas de Bosebir Ralph de Maidstone Stephen Thorne Ancelin/Anselm Giles de Avenbury John de Aqua-Blanca

Late Medieval	Stephen de Ledebury Thomas Trilleck William de Feriby William Bermingham John de Middleton John Harold John Prophet Thomas Felde John Bagshaw John Stanwey Henry Shelford John Berew Richard Pede Thomas Chaundler Oliver King John Hervey

Early modern	Reginald West Thomas Wolsey Edmund Frowcester Gamaliel Clifton Hugh Curwen Edmund Daniel John Ellis John Watkins Charles Langford Edward Doughtie Richard Montagu Oliver Lloyd Silvanus Griffiths Daniel Price John Richardson Jonathan Brown Herbert Croft Thomas Hodges George Benson John Tyler Robert Clavering John Harris Edward Cresset Edmund Castle John Egerton Francis Webber Nathan Wetherell

Late modern	William Leigh George Grelton Robert Carr Edward Mellish Edward Grey John Merewether Richard Dawes George Herbert Wentworth Leigh Reginald Waterfield Hedley Burrows Robert Price Norman Rathbone Peter Haynes Robert Willis Michael Tavinor

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