{{Short description|English priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Clement Breton''' [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]] was an English [[priest]] in the 17th century.<ref>"Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica: Antiquities in Leicestershire, Volume 7" p467: London; J.Nichols; 1790</ref>

Breton was born in [[Uppingham]] and educated at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]],<ref>[[Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]], [[John Venn]]/[[John Archibald Venn]] [[Cambridge University Press]] [https://archive.org/details/alumnicantabrigipt1vol1univiala/page/210/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1209-1751 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p211]</ref> He was [[ordained]] in 1631 and held the [[Living (Christianity)|living]] at [[Church Langton]] until his ejection in 1642. He was reinstated in 1660.<ref>[https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf University of Leicester]</ref> Breton was [[Archdeacon of the East Riding]] from 1661 to 1662;<ref>{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Joyce M. |first=Horn |last2=Smith |first2=David M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=4 |pages=16–18}}</ref> and [[Archdeacon of Leicester]] from 1662<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref> until his death in 1669.

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