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Clay was born in 1797, and, having been ordained deacon in 1823 by John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, became curate of Greenwich.
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William Clay
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He was ordained priest in the following year by William Howley, Bishop of London. He was curate of Paddington in 1830, and of Blunham, Bedfordshire, in 1834. In 1835 he took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at Jesus College, Cambridge, as a "ten-year man".
He became minor canon of Ely Cathedral in 1837, and was subsequently appointed "prælector theologicus" and librarian of the cathedral.
In 1842 he was instituted to the perpetual curacy of Holy Trinity, Ely, and was collated in 1854 by Thomas Turton, bishop of Ely, to the vicarage of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, where he died on 26 April 1867.
