Richard Eden, Emeritus Professor of Energy Studies, was elected Fellow of Clare College in 1951, also becoming Director of Studies in Mathematics. He was closely involved in the founding of Clare Hall in 1966 and in that year he also became a Fellow of Clare Hall, where after retirement he is now an Honorary Fellow. He is the author of Clare College and the founding of Clare Hall, (Clare Hall, 1998).
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
Born in Cambridge in 1802.
Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 20 November 1819
Matriculated Michaelmas 1820
B.A. (30th Wrangler) 1824
M.A. 1827
Fellow, 1829-71
Chaplain of St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1841-60
Died in 1871
Matriculated at Clare, 1903. Changed his name from Schulhop.
In 1932 Robert S. Hutton was elected the first Goldsmith's Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
He sought admission to Clare College and this was granted in 1936. He remained a Fellow until his death in 1970.
Born in 1925 in Tunbridge Wells
School - Rugby
Admitted to Clare College on 15 January 1943
Born on 7 March 1903 in New South Wales, Australia
Educated at Sidney University
Admitted to Clare College on 13 July 1927
Born on 11 November 1924 in Finchley. Attended Bryanston School
Admitted to Clare College on 20 April 1942
Matriculated at Clare, 1932.
From an Ulster family, son of Samuel Cunningham and Janet Muir Knox
School - Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and Fettes College in Edinburgh
Admitted to Clare College in 1928 where he read English with Mansfield Forbes, was a member of the Dilettanti Society and heavy-weight boxing champion
In the 1930s he studied law and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1939
During the Second World War he served in the Scots Guards although he continued his legal studies, and called to the Bar in Northern Ireland in 1942
Fought the Belfast West by-election in 1943 and the same seat in the 1945 general election
In the 1955 general election he was chosen as the new Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim
In 1959 he was made a Queen's Counsel
After the 1959 general election, he was picked by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. When Macmillan resigned, he awarded Cunningham a baronetcy in his resignation honours
Remained on the backbenches, known as one to the right of Ulster Unionism and a friend of Ian Paisley.
He retired at the 1970 general election
1973-74 - Master of the Drapers Company
1970-1976 - Provincial Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Gloucestershire
Member of the Apprentice Boys Club in Derry a
He died on 29 July 1976 aged 76
Military intelligence, the RUC and victims named Cunningham as a paedophile and identified his close links to the sex offender ring at Kincora Boys' Home, but MI5 denies this