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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.

Born in 1852 the son of H.M. Harris of Plymouth
School – Plymouth Grammar
Admitted to Clare College on 9 June 1870 as a pensioner
BA 3rd Wrangler 1874
MA 1877

Fellow 1875-88 and 1892-1904
Librarian from 1898-1902
Hon. Fellow 1909-41

Fellow British Academy 1927
Hon. LittD Dublin
Hon. LLD Haverford, USA
Hon. D.Theol. Leyden, Holland
Hon. LLD Birmingham
Hon. DD Glasgow
Professor of New Testament Greek: Sch: Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA , 1882-86
Returned to Cambridge, 1893
University Lecturer in Palaeography, 1893-1903

Travelled extensively in the East in search of manuscripts and, as a result of his visits to Mount Sinai
Had two narrow escapes from drowning, his ship being torpedoed on both occasions, in the War of 1914-18

Moved to Manchester, 1918
Curator of Eastern, John Rylands Library 1918-25
Professor of Biblical Languages: Sch: Haverford College USA , 1886-92
Professor of Theology: at Sch: University of Leyden Leyden, Holland, 1903-04
Director of studies: Friends' Settlement for Social and Religious Study Woodbrooke, near Birmingham, 1903-18

Notice to marry, July 1880, at the Friends Meeting House in Plymouth, Helen Balkwill
Died in Selly Oak, Birmingham, on 1 March 1941

J Rendel Harris was one of the most prolific and influential New Testament scholars of his time and was responsible for bringing to light hitherto lost early Christian writings and gathered major collections of Syriac manuscripts and Greek papyri, especially the Syriac Bible. It was Dr Harris who provided Dr Agnes Smith Lewis and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson (twin sisters in Cambridge with interest in ancient Syriac writings) with the contacts in Egypt that enabled them to visit the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mt. Sinai. This collaboration led to the discovery of the Sinaitic Palimpsest.

Born on 11 April 1613/14 in Hoo, Kent
Son of Peter Gunning, vicar of Hoo, Kent
School - King’s Canterbury

Matriculated as a sizar from Clare College 1629
B.A. 1632/3, M.A. 1636, D.D. Corpus Christi College 1660, B.D. Oxford 1646

Made a Fellow of Corpus Christi College 1633 -1644 ejected
University preacher 1641
Lady Margaret Professor 1660-61

Master of Corpus Christi College by mandate 1661 (February–June)
Regius Professor of Divinity 1661-74

Master of St John’s College 1661-69

Chaplain to the King 1660
Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland, 1660-70
Rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northants, 1660–70
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1660-69
Bishop of Chichester, 1670-75
Bishop of Ely, 1675-84

Died 6 July 1684

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 College on 14 January 1931 where he took Classics and graduated in Law.

In his student days, Greenwood developed a lifelong passion for mountaineering, scaling numerous peaks in the Alps, Dolomites, Tyrol, and Norway, as well as mountains closer to home in Scotland and Wales. He was elected to the Alpine Club at the age of 24. His mountaineering expertise proved crucial during his military service in the Second World War. He went on to marry a fellow-mountaineer. He celebrated his 80th birthday by scaling the 6121-meter high Stok Kangri Himalayan peak in Ladakh.

1940 - joined the Royal Artillery as a temporary Captain.
1943 - at a mountain warfare conference at Lochailort, Scotland, he was transferred to the New Zealand Squadron as a climbing instructor for mountain warfare. He accompanied the New Zealand Squadron in its ultimately doomed attempt to occupy the Italian controlled Dodecanese Islands. Escaping to Turkey, he went on to become a liaison officer for the Long Range Desert Group of a British brigade in Montenegro in 1945. In June 1945, he joined the Allied Military Government Organization in Austria, serving until March 1946. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Colonial Office. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944.

1946 - Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Uganda
1947 - Registrar
1950 - Resident Magistrate

1952 - called to the bar at London's Inner Temple
1954 - Crown Counsel
1956 - served briefly as Solicitor General of Fiji
1956-1963 - Attorney General
1963 - Attorney General of Gibraltar
He later filled in as Acting Attorney General of Montserrat, as well as a legal adviser in Hong Kong. He was also to spend a year in Washington, D.C. as an adviser to the Telstar Conference

Married fellow mountaineer Rosemary Farmborough Howard in 1956. They had first climbed together before the war. Up until 1978, they together climbed mountains in New Zealand, Austria, Italy, Greece, Nepal, India and Peru. They both belonged to the Eagle Ski Club.

Born c. 1678
Son of Robert Greene, a mercer of Tamworth, Staffs

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on the 8 October 1694
BA 1700
MA 1703
Fellow 1703-1730
Ordained London 1705
DD 1728
Died 1730

"Dr Goddard's note says: 'He published a large folio of his own Philosophy'. This was i n1712. In it he combated the Newtonian views. He maintained that there was no such thing as vacuum and that the circle could be squared; held strange views of gravity, and regarded the new system as tending to undermine revelation. It appears that he was thought by his contemporaries (not without some reason) to be mad". [Wardale, J.R., College Histories Clare College pp.150-151]

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.