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Person · 17 June 1883 - 9 June 1969

Admitted to Clare in October 1903 to read mathematics.
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.

He returned to Cambridge after the War to direct studies in mathematics and to lecture for the Mathematical Tripos.

1929 - 1949 served as Bursar.

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

Person · c. 1617 - 23 June 1670

Admitted sizar at Clare, 20 August 1635.
Matriculated 1636.
B.A. 1639-40; M.A. 1643; D.D. 1661 (Lit. Reg.).
Fellow, 1642-4 (ejected); restored, 1660. He was one of 4 Fellows restored at the Restoration.

On 27 August 1661 he was required to go with Sir Richard Fanshaw to Portugal in connection with King Charles II's marriage to Catherine of Braganza.

Incorporated at Oxford, 1664.
Fellow of Eton College, 1661-70.
Canon of Windsor, 1662-70.
Vicar of New Windsor, 1662.

Died 23 June 1670. Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor M.I.

He was a man of great generosity and was devoted to his College. He gave half of the profits of his Fellowship for the last year to the building fund and in his will left £700 to the same fund..

Hills & Saunders
1852 - unclear

Hills & Saunders was one of the leading Victorian photographic firms, started in 1860 as a partnership between Robert Hills, a hairdresser and wigmaker, and John Henry Saunders (1836–1890) [according to Wikipedia - the Hills & Saunders Website say they were formed in Oxfordshire in 1852].

They were social photographers with studios at different times in: London (society), Harrow, Eton, and Rugby, all locations of leading schools, Oxford and Cambridge, and Aldershot & Sandhurst (centres of the British army). They were successful, being appointed as photographers to members of the royal family, including the Prince of Wales and Princess Beatrice, and they were given a Royal Warrant as photographers to Queen Victoria in 1867; many of their photographs are still in the Royal Collection.

However, the network of branches did not remain united. The partnership of Robert Hills and John Henry Saunders was dissolved in 1889, although members of both families continued to operate local branches under the same name. Only the two main school branches, at Eton and Harrow, continued well into the 20th Century. Ultimately the Harrow business closed and the photo archive was acquired by the school, but the Eton business survived into the 21st century. In 2019 the historic company was acquired by its Oxfordshire based contemporary, Gillman & Soame, in order to preserve the extensive archives and ensure the future of the prestigious Victorian photographic studio. For further information and for copyright permission see: https://hillsandsaunders.co.uk/

Person · 20 February 1878 - 15 August 1912

Born in Goginan, Cardiganshire and educated at Lewis School Pengam and the University of Wales, Aberystwth.
Matriculated at Clare in 1897 to study Natural Sciences.
1899 BA and 1903 MA.

1 August 1912 married Muriel Gwendolen Edwards, a colleague and keen climber. She was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the University of Wales.

1901 - demonstrator to the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Sir James Dewar.
1902 became a Fellow of Clare College and then a lecturer.

1907 - became a keen climber after receiving some tuition in Snowdonia.
1909 - member of the Alpine Club.

Jones and his wife were killed in an accident on their honeymoon in Switzerland, while climbing the Aiguille Rouge de Peuterey 2941m a subpeak of Aiguille Noire de Peuterey on 15 August 1912 in Italy. Their guide, Julius Truffer, slipped and fell on Jones, and all three dropped nearly 1,000 feet to the Fresnay Glacier.