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Thomas Clutterbuck (priest)

English priest in the 17th century, died 1700

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2023
Entity authorityQ97181226 ↗
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Thomas Clutterbuck, D.D. (died 1700) was an English priest in the 17th century.

Clutterbuck was born in Dinton, Buckinghamshire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming Fellow in 1644. He held livings at Leckford, Llandrillo and Southampton. Clutterbuck was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1684 to 1700.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thomas Clutterbuck (priest)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.