Claugton, Thomas Legh

Title

Rt Revd

First name(s)

Thomas Legh

Surname

Claugton [also "Claughton"]

Position(s) held at King's College London

Life Governor, 1884-1892

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• Rugby
• Trinity College, Oxford

Qualifications

• BA (1:1) in literae humaniores (1831)
• MA (1833)
• Prize for Latin Verse, poem ‘Voyages of Discovery to the Polar Regions’ (1829)
• Prize for Latin Essay ‘De stoicorum disciplina’ (1832) ^{Ref: *1}

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford (1832 to 1842)
• Public Examiner (1835)
• Select preacher for Oxford (1841, 1850, 1863, and 1868)
• Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1852 to 1857)
• Curate to Kidderminster for twenty six years
• Bishop of Rochester (1867)
• First Bishop of St Albans ^{Ref: *1}

Professional activities

• Ordained 1834

Publications

• Editor, Questions on the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels (2 vols., 1853–7)
• Appeal to his Diocese from the Bishop of St Albans in Behalf of the Cathedral (1878)

Personal details

Date of birth

6 November 1808

Place of birth

Haydock Lodge, Winwick, Lancashire

Date of death

25 July 1892

Place of death

Danbury Palace

Family details

Son of Thomas Claughton MP (1774?–1842). Married to Julia Susanna Ward in 1842, together having five sons and four daughters. ^{Ref: *1}