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William Greaves was born in Rochdale, Lancs and was the son of William, of Gartside Hall, Lancashire.
He was admitted to Clare on 26 January 1719/20.
B.A. 1720/1. M.A. 1724
Fellow, 1722-42.

Admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 03 June 1724 and at the Inner Temple on 09 November 1727.
Commissary of the University, 1726-79.
Steward of the estates of Trinity College.

Married a daughter of Beaupré Bell.
Succeeded to his estates at Outwell, Norfolk, and assumed the name of Beaupré-Bell.

Died at Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, 10 March 1787.

John Rutter (1945-), Clare 1964, was director of Music at Clare from 1975-1979. He later formed the Cambridge Singers and continued to compose music and carols. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours for 2007 (in December 2006).

Originally from Barnsley, William Kelsey came to Clare in 1914 and is pictured in the 1914 matriculation photograph. He received his commission on his 19th birthday, serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He was grievously wounded in France on 14 July 1916, later dying of his injuries at the Empire Hospital in London. His name is included on the College War Memorial plaque in the Chapel.

Malcolm Mitchinson read Medicine at Queen's College, Cambridge and took his BChir in 1960 and MD in 1969. He was elected as a Fellow at Clare College in 1966 and taught here until 1990. He was the Director of Studies in Pathology for 20 years. He died in October 2015.

Obituary Clare Association Annual 2014-15

John Millard Newton, MA 1961, PhD 1963, Fellow 1970.

Master of Clare College, 1929-1939

Born on 29 October 1871 and was the son of Daniel Wilson of Melbourne, Australia
School - Trinity College, Melbourne.

Admitted at Clare College on 10 October 1892 and matriculated Michaelmas 1892
B.A. (5th Wrangler ) 1895; (Maths. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class, 1896); M.A. 1899
Fellow, 1897-1929
Master, 1929-39
Junior Proctor, 1905-06
M.P. for the University, 1929-35

Vice-Chancellor, 1935-37
Secretary of the University Financial Board, 1920-6
Treasurer, 1926-29
Hon. D.C.L., Durham, 1937

Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, Unattached List, T.F.; General Staff Officer, War Office; O.B.E.; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; mentioned twice in Secretary of State's List for 'valuable services')

19 December 1899 married Margaret Mabel, eldest daughter of the Revd John Edward Parker Bartlett, Rector of Barnham Broom, Norfolk .

Of The River House, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire in 1952

Died on 13 July 1958

Pam Wadham worked in the Tutorial Office from 1971-1991.

Born in Chelsea, Middlesex the son of Edward, of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and of Calstone-Wellington, Wilts

Admitted as a Pensioner to Clare College on 7 July 1822
Matriculated Michaelmas 1823
B.A. (17th Wrangler) 1827; M.A. 1830

Fellow, 1829-36

Of Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, in 1841; without cure.
Minister of the English Congregation at Tours, France, c. 1843-59.

William Butler matriculated as sizar from Peterhouse, Lent 1557/8, BA 1560/1, MA 1564, Fellow 1561. He was elected a fellow of Clare in 1572. Despite no formal qualification in medicine, he gained a significant reputation within the medical community; he is known to have acted as physician to James I. Widely considered an eccentric, his restorative techniques were uniquely imaginative. He is said to have once revived a man suffering from an opium overdose by putting him inside the chest cavity of a recently-slaughtered cow, and cured another patient of a fever by having him thrown off a balcony into the Thames. He died 29th January 1617/8 and is buried at Great St Marys, Cambridge.

Extract from Lempriere's Universal Biography , 1808: 'Butler, William, a physician, of Ipswich, educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, He practised at Cambridge without a degree, but the oddity of his manners, and the bold method with which he treated his patients often successfully rendered him a favourite in his profession. Some anecdotes of him are recorded, which exhibit him more as a capricious boy or a madman than a man of sound sense. He died 1618 aged 82. He left no writings behind him'.

Matriculated at Clare 1919, graduated 1922, Clare organ scholar.