Background
He was seventh son of John Clubbe, rector of Whatfield in Suffolk, baptised at Whatfield on 16 April 1745.
He was seventh son of John Clubbe, rector of Whatfield in Suffolk, baptised at Whatfield on 16 April 1745.
He was educated at Newcome"s School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1762 and graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1769.
In the same year he was instituted to the rectory of Flowton, and in the following year to the vicarage of Brandeston, both in Suffolk. He took an antiquarian interest in brasses and other materials removed on the restoration work in Letheringham church, a modernisation pushed through by Thomas Rede, attorney at Beccles. There he died on 16 October 1814.
His biography appeared in volunteer
6 of Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century by John Nichols, where he was called second son of John Clubbe.