Background
Clagett was the son of the Review Nicholas Clagett the elder, of Bury Saint Edmunds, and the younger brother of the controversialist William Clagett.
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He was baptised 20 May 1654, and was educated at the Norwich Grammar School.
Career
In 1671 he was admitted to Christ"s College, Cambridge, and took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and M.A, in due course. Three years later he was also instituted to the rectory of Thurlow Parva in Norfolk, and in 1693 Doctor John Moore, then bishop of Norwich, who was well acquainted with his abilities and virtues, collated him to the archdeaconry of Sudbury. In 1704 he graduated Doctor of Divinity, and in 1707 he was instituted to the rectory of Hitcham, Suffolk.
He died in January 1727, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church in which he had been so long preacher.
He is reported to have been a good preacher, and a charitable and blameless manitoba He had several children, among them being Nicholas Clagett, bishop of Exeter.
