Alfred Young was born on 16 April, 1873 in Widnes, Lancashire; his family moved to Bournemouth in 1879 and after being educated at home when to Monkton Combe School near Bath. He won a scholarship to Clare College and was admitted in 1892; excellent oarsman; began to undertake research in his third year which prevented him from achieving a very high position in the Tripos and so he was placed tenth Wrangler in 1895; he published his first paper in 1899, "The irreducible concomitants of any number of binary quartics" and in 1900 he introduced "young tableaus" the method for which he is best remembered; appointed as lecturer at Selwyn College in 1901 and Fellow at Clare in 1905 where he also became Bursar; married Edith Clara in 1907; ordained in 1908 and became a Curate at Christ Church, Hastings; also awarded a Sc. D from Cambridge; then parish priest at Birdbrook, Essex where he lived for the rest of his life, combining successfully the work of a parish priest with his researches in the theory of the algebra of groups. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934; he died on 15 December 1940. See obituary in Clare Association Annual 1947, pp. 99-101
Philip Whitwell Wilson was born in Westmorland, Cumbria, the son of I. Whitwell Wilson, a Justice of the Peace, and Annie Bagster.
He was educated at Kendal Grammar School.
Admitted to Clare College in 1894.
President of the Cambridge Union, and was also one of the first editors of the literary magazine Granta.
He worked in the Press Gallery in the House of Commons for twelve years immediately after leaving Clare and was an MP for St. Pancras (South) between 1906 - 1910. He also went on to write for the New York Times when he moved to America.
Probably the son of John Wilson, Rector of Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire
Admitted pensioner at Clare College on 15 September 1663
Matriculated 1663
B.A. 1667/8
M.A. 1671
Freeman Fellow, 1669-72
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 19 March 1670/1
Rector of Compton Basset, Wiltshire, 1671
Founded two scholarships at Clare
Died 1724
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
Born at Old Warden, Bedfordshire in 1795 the eldest son of the Revd Edmund, Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 1 July 1814
Matriculated Michaelmas 1814
B.A. 1818; M.A. 1821
Ordained deacon, 1819; priest, 1821
Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire (succeeding his father), 1839-64
Founder of the Bedford Library; Hon. Secretary and Vice-President
Died 7 August 1864, aged 68
Master of Clare College, 1736-1762
Born in Grantham, Lincs.
Admitted sizar at Clare on 3 July 1708 and matriculated in 1708.
B.A. 1711/2
M.A. 1715
D.D. 1728
Fellow, 1714
Taxor, 1720
Master of Clare, 1736-62 .
Vice-Chancellor, 1736-7, and 1751-2.
Ordained deacon (London) on 19 December 1714; priest (Ely) 23 September 1716.
Vicar of Madingley, Cambridgeshire , 1721-30 .
Vicar of Everton, Bedfordshire , 1730-2 .
Vicar of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, Middlesex , 1731-62 .
Prebend of St Paul's, London, 1732-62 .
Sub-dean of York, 1750-62 .
Died in College, 16 September 1762.
Left his fortune for the building of the College Chapel.
Matriculated at Clare, 1944.
Master of Clare College, 1815-1856
Born in February 1775 at Sutton Coldfield. The son of William, Master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 30 April 1793
B.A. (18th Wrangler; aegrotat) 1797
M.A. 1800
B.D. 1808
D.D. 1816
Elected to a Fellowship in 1799
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough in 1800 and as Priest in 1801
Presented to the College living at Litlington in 1812
May 1815 promoted to the combined livings of Fornham All Saints and Westley. He resigned from these livings upon his election as Master in July 1815
Vice-Chancellor, 1817-18 and 1832-3
President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1843-44
He married Anne, the daughter of the Rev. T.V. Gould, his predecessor in the living at Westley
Died 4 January 1856
John Reynolds Wardale (1859-1931) was admitted to Clare in 1878, became a Fellow in 1882, Junior Tutor in 1894, sole Tutor in 1915, remained as Lecturer until 1923.
Compiled the "Notes" from his research into the College records for "Clare College" (1899) as part of the series of University of Cambridge College histories, for "Clare College Letters and Documents" as well as for general interest.