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Described as fellow of University College, Oxford, in 1689.
Foster: Clavering, Robert (MA Edinburgh 2 Apr 1693), s. Rob. gent. Lincoln Coll., admitted 18 July 1693, aged 17, created BA 4 July 1693, and created MA 20 May 1696; fellow and tutor University Coll. 1701; canon of Christ Church 1715; BD and DD 2 Mar 1715-16, regius professor of Hebrew 1715-47, dean of Hereford 1706-29, rector of Hadley, Suffolk, 1712, treasurer of St David's 1713, rector of Bocking, Essex, 1714-19, and of Marsh Gibbon, Bucks, 1719, chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury, bishop of Llandaff 1725-9, and of Peterborough 1729, until his death 21 July 1747, father of Robert (matric. 1713). See Hearne, iii, 215, 299; Rawlinson, iii, 184; Gutch MS, 374; Foster's Index Eccl.; DNB.