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Master of Clare College, 1713-1726

Son of Thomas Grigg of Middlesex
Admitted pensioner at Jesus College on 24 September 1684
Matriculated in 1685
Scholar, 1685, from St Paul's School, London
Rustat scholar at Jesus
B.A. 1688/9
M.A. 1697
D.D. (Com. Reg.) 1717

Fellow, 1696-1714

Master of Clare 1713-1726
He was nominated by the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor of the University as the votes of the society were equally divided.
“We know but little about him, but that little does not tend to give us a very high opinion of his character”, Wardale, J.R. *College Histories: Clare College”.

Vice-Chancellor, 1716-17
Ordained Priest at Lincoln, 8 June 1707
Vicar of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1705
Vicar of All Saints', Cambridge, 1707-17
Rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1717-26
Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset

Died 9 April 1726

Admitted to Clare in October 1903 to read mathematics (First class).
Elected into a Fellowship in 1907 and was awarded the Smith's prize in 1908.

1910 married Ethel Marienne Harvey piper. They had two sons who also attended Clare as did their grandson.

WWI - served as Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery and as Assistant Proof and Experimental Officer at Woolwich Arsenal. His services were recognised with the award of an MBE.

After lecturing in maths at Liverpool and then back in Cambridge he was commissioned as a Scientific Officer at Woolwich Arsenal in 1914. From 1919-1924 he continued scientific work in Cambridge and then changed direction to deal with administration of Clare College. He became Bursar, Financial Tutor and Steward and also dealt with the College Archives. This was the period when the College was run mainly by three men, Sir Henry Thirkill, Dr. W. Telfer and William Harrison who were known as the "Holy Trinity". Harrison retired in 1949 but continued his research in the Archives publishing books on the history of the College.

1929 - 1949 served as Bursar.

Obituary: The Clare Association Annual 1969, pp. 56-57.

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

Master of Clare College 1620-1645 (ejected); 1660 (restored but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham)

B.A. from Clare c.1602-1603
M.A. 1606
B.D. 1613
D.D. 1621
Fellow

Elected Master of Clare, 31 December 1620. Ejected in 1645. Restored in 1660 but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham

Vice-Chancellor, 1623-24
Vicar of Hendon, Middlesex, 1611-26
Rector of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, London, 1624-44 (ejected)
Vicar of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1625. Sequestered, 1643
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1625-62
Archdeacon of London, 1626-62
Prebendary of York, 1628-62
Chaplain to James, Marquis of Hamilton

Died c. September 1662

Master of Clare College, 1654-1660

Born in Deane, Bedfordshire in 1612. Son of Thomas, Rector of Deane. Baptised on 18 October 1612
School - Upper Deane
Admitted at Emmanuel College on 13 September 1629
Matriculated in 1629
B.A. 1633/4
M.A. 1637
B.D. from Sidney, 1644
D.D. from Clare, 1655
Fellow of Sidney, 1638
Master of Clare, 1654-60, and 1661-78
Vice-Chancellor, 1655-56, 1656-57, 1662

Ordained deacon at Peterborough, 10 March 1638/39
Rector of Offord Cluny, Huntingdonshire, 1654-78
Prebendary of York, 1662
Archdeacon of Bedford, 1667-78
Died in Cambridge on 22 November 1678

Born on 28 March 1809, son of John of Brickenden Grange, Herts.

Admitted pensioner at Clare, 3 November 1827.
Matriculated Michaelmas 1828.
B.A. 1832; M.A. 1835.
18 October 1837 married Charlotte Cassandra (daughter of Henry Phillpotts, D.D., Bishop of Exeter).
Founder of the Cherry Scholarship, 1836.
Died 10 March 1874.

Born in 1885 he was the son of Rear-Admiral Henry Compton Baynes.
He was educated at Clifton College and entered Clare in 1904. He obtained a first-class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1908, and in the same year was placed sixth in the Home and Indian Civil Service examination.
He was appointed to the Colonial Office, was secretary to the Malta Royal Commission and to the West African Currency Board.
In 1915 he was given permission to join the Army and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery.
In 1917 he was awarded the M.C. “continuous and conspicuous gallant service as forward observation officer”. He was killed in action in Flanders on 14 October 1918 aged 32 and buried in Hooge Crater Cemetary, Ypres.
Following his death, his family founded a Studentship at Clare in his name to support postgraduate research in the physical sciences.