Robert Clavering

The Right Reverend Robert Clavering
Bishop of Peterborough
Portrait by Thomas Gibson
Diocese	Diocese of Peterborough
In office	1729–1747
Predecessor	White Kennett
Successor	John Thomas
Other post(s)	Bishop of Llandaff (1724–1729)
Personal details
Born	1676 (1676)
Died	(1747-07-21)21 July 1747
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Mary Cook
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh Lincoln College, Oxford

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

^ 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
^ "Canons of Christ Church: Sixth prebend | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
^ "Parishes : Marsh Gibbon | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
^ "Bishops of Peterborough". peterowen.org.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
^ "CLAVERING, ROBERT – JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
^ "OXFORD – JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

Academic offices
Preceded by Roger Altham	Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford 1715–1747	Succeeded by Thomas Hunt
Church of England titles
Preceded by John Tyler	Dean of Hereford 1706–1729	Succeeded by John Harris
Preceded by John Tyler	Bishop of Llandaff 1724–1729	Succeeded by John Harris
Preceded by White Kennett	Bishop of Peterborough 1729–1747	Succeeded by John Thomas

v t e 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 Browne 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 Gretton 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 Sarah Brown

v t e Bishops of Llandaff
High Medieval	Joseph Herewald Urban Uhtred Nicholas ap Gwrgant William de Saltmarsh Henry de Abergavenny William de Goldcliff Elias de Radnor William de Christchurch William de Burgh John de la Ware William de Radnor William de Braose Philip de Staunton
Late Medieval	John of Monmouth Alexander de Monmouth John de Egglescliffe John Paschal Rodger Cradock Thomas Rushhook William Bottlesham Edmund de Bromfield Robert Tideman of Winchcombe Andrew Barret John Burghill Thomas Peverel John de la Zouche John Wells Nicholas Ashby John Hunden John Smith John Marshall John Ingleby
Early modern	Miles Salley George de Athequa Robert Holgate Anthony Kitchin Hugh Jones William Blethyn Gervase Babington William Morgan Francis Godwin George Carleton Theophilus Feild William Murray Morgan Owen Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Hugh Lloyd Francis Davies William Lloyd William Beaw John Tyler Robert Clavering John Harris Matthias Mawson John Gilbert Edward Cresset Richard Newcome John Ewer Jonathan Shipley Hon Shute Barrington Richard Watson Herbert Marsh William Van Mildert Charles Sumner Edward Copleston Alfred Ollivant Richard Lewis Joshua Pritchard Hughes
Church in Wales	Joshua Pritchard Hughes Timothy Rees John Morgan (Archbishop of Wales) Glyn Simon (Archbishop of Wales) Eryl Thomas John Poole-Hughes Roy Davies Barry Morgan (Archbishop of Wales) June Osborne Mary Stallard

v t e Bishops of Peterborough
Early modern	John Chambers David Pole Edmund Scambler Richard Howland Thomas Dove William Piers Augustine Lindsell Francis Dee John Towers Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Benjamin Lany Joseph Henshaw William Lloyd Thomas White Richard Cumberland White Kennett Robert Clavering John Thomas Richard Terrick Robert Lamb John Hinchliffe
Late modern	Spencer Madan John Parsons Herbert Marsh George Davys Francis Jeune William Connor Magee Mandell Creighton Edward Carr Glyn Theodore Woods Cyril Bardsley Claude Blagden Spencer Leeson Robert Stopford Cyril Easthaugh Douglas Feaver Bill Westwood Ian Cundy Donald Allister Debbie Sellin

Regius Professors of Hebrew

University of Oxford

University of Cambridge