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Nicholas Claket (14 April 1686 – 8 December 1746) was an English bishop.

Life

Claggett was from a clerical family of Bury St Edmunds. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge aged 16 in April 1702, graduating B.A. in 1705–6, M.A. in 1709 and D.D. in 1724.

He was appointed Archdeacon of Buckingham on 1 September 1722. After this he became Dean of Rochester on 8 February 1724, succeeding on the death of Samuel Pratt, and was elected bishop of St. David's, congé d'élire issued on 17 December 1731. He was allowed to hold in commendam the rectories of Shobrooke and of Overton in the diocese of Winchester. On 2 August 1742 he was translated, becoming Bishop of Exeter. He died on 8 Dec. 1746, and was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster, with no epitaph.

Works

He published Articles of Enquiry for the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, 1732, and eleven sermons. One was preached before the House of Lords on the anniversary of Charles I's martyrdom, another on the consecration of Bishop White. A Persuasive to an ingenuous trial of Opinions in Religion (1685), sometimes ascribed to him, belongs rather to his father.

Family

He was son of Nicholas Clagett the Younger, minister at Bury St. Edmunds, and nephew of the preacher William Clagett, both sons of the Puritan Nicholas Clagett the elder.

References

1. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Clagett, Nicholas (d.1746)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

• 1686 births
• 1746 deaths
• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Bishops of St Davids
• Bishops of Exeter
• Archdeacons of Buckingham
• Burials at St Margaret's, Westminster
• Deans of Rochester
• 18th-century Church of England bishops
• 18th-century Welsh Anglican bishops
• 17th-century Anglican theologians
• 18th-century Anglican theologians