Education
Trinity College.
Trinity College.
Claggett was from a clerical family of Bury Street Edmunds. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge aged 16 in April 1702, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1705-1706, Master of Arts in 1709 and Doctor of Divinity 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 Saint 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 December 1746, and was buried at Saint Margaret"s, Westminster, with no epitaph.
