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 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
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- ↑ 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
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- 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