Admitted to Clare College in 1936.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action and awarded the Victoria Cross.
Born in Blackheath, the son of J.M. Burnup.
Educated at Malvern College where he captained the school cricket and racquets teams.
Matriculated from Clare College in Michaelmas 1894. B.A. 1898
Cricket ‘blue’, 1896, 1897, 1898 (leading run scorer in 1896 and 1898)
Football ‘blue’ 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898
1894 – 1901 - Played 79 matches for Corinthian FC scoring 28 times. In April 1896, whilst at Cambridge, he was selected to represent England against Scotland.
1896, whilst at Cambridge, he made his Kent County Cricket Club debut and played regularly for the county until 1907. He scored over 1,000 runs in a season for Kent eight times and made 157 first-class appearances for the side. In 1896 he became the first Kent batsman to score a century before lunch in Kent.
He made 102 consecutive County Championship appearances for Kent between 1899 and 1903, becoming the first man to play in over 100 consecutive Championship matches for the county. He captained Kent for one season in 1903. In that year he was named Wisden’s Cricketer of the Year.
William Charles Denis Browne (1888-1915), matriculated at Clare in 1907. He was admitted on a Classics scholarship but spent most of his time at College pursuing musical interests and rowing. Took a teaching position at Repton after Clare but was there less than a year and then took a job as organist at Guy's hospital in London. He then taught music at Morley College at the same time as working at Guy's hospital and was also a music critic for the Times and New Statesman. He was killed in action at Gallipoli during the First World War.
Attended school in Heidelberg.
Is on the War Memorial.
Matriculated as a pensioner from Clare College Lent term 1577/8
B.A. from Magdalene College 1580/1
M.A. 1584
Probably Fellow of Clare College
Proctor 1599
Born in 1924 the son of Alfred Simeon Boyes and Edith.
School - Rugby
Admitted to Clare in 1943
Lieutenant RNVR, N Russian convoys and British Pacific Fleet, 1942-46
Cambridge University, 1942, 1946-1948
Mellon Fellowship
Yale University, 1948-50
Assistant Master at Rugby School, 1950-55
Headmaster of Kendal Grammar School, 1955-60
Director of Studies, Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, 1960-65
Headmaster of City of London School, 1965-84
Matriculated pensioner from Clare College, Michaelmas 1615
B.A. 1618-9; M.A. 1622
Fellow
Perhaps Vicar of Plumstead, Kent, 1632 (M.A.)
Perhaps Rector of Bramfield, Herts.
Ejected in 1635 and re-instated in 1660
Died in 1677
Born at Lackford, Suffolk in c.1564, the son of John Borage
School, Bury St Edmunds
Admitted pensioner (age 17) at Caius on 6 November 1581
Matriculated in 1581. Probably afterwards scholar at Clare
Admitted at the Middle Temple, December 1584
Founded a Fellowship at Clare, by will, 1636-7. He made over a rentcharge of £15 a year for the foundation of a Fellowship confined to natives of Norfolk and tenable for five years from the time of taking the MA degree.
A child prodigy, Bor was a recitalist during the 1920s and 1930s. She performed with the Griller Quartet, the Amadeus and the Kantrovich Trio, and was a regular broadcaster for the BBC.
Two of her pianist contemporaries were Eileen Joyce, and Myra Hess, who organised the wartime concerts at the National Gallery. Bor created her own series of lunchtime concerts at London's Royal Exchange.
After World War II she became a piano teacher. Her pupils included Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
Master of Clare College, 1678-1713
Born in Doncaster, Samuel Blyth was first admitted to Clare College as a sizar undergraduate in 1652.
He gained his BA in 1655 and was made a Fellow in 1658, later serving as College Master 1678-1713.
He was a considerable benefactor to the College.