William Keatinge Clay


William Keatinge Clay was an English cleric and antiquary.

Biography

Clay was born in 1797, and, having been ordained deacon in 1823 by John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, became curate of Greenwich. 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 B.D. 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.

Works

Clay published several parochial histories, as well as commentaries and editions of Anglican liturgical texts. He also helped in the edition of the Book of Common Prayer issued by the Ecclesiastical History Society in 1849-54, and in the edition of Charles Wheatly's Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer, reprinted in 1858 by the syndics of the Cambridge University Press.
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