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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.

Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944. One of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union. He was paroled in 1948. He was a prominent academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932 to 1943, rector 1956 to 1962, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death.

William Horbury is a Church of England priest and former Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at Cambridge University

He graduated BA from Oriel College, Oxford in 1964 and entered Westcott House, Cambridge for ordination training in the same year. He was ordained deacon in 1969 and priest in 1970, having become a Fellow of Clare College in 1968. He completed his Cambridge PhD thesis in 1971.

1972-78 - he served as Rector of Great and Little Gransden in the Diocese of Ely
1978 he became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and is now a Life Fellow
In 1984 he became a lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge
In 1998 he became Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies

1990-2014 - he served as honorary priest in charge of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge

He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1997

Admitted to Clare College in 1950
1964 - made a Fellow

Among his many interests, Dr Knewstubb was an expert on the Clare College silver who organised exhibitions of the College treasures, and he was an enthusiastic singer.

Born in 1857 the son of O. Perry of Loseberry, Esher, Surrey
School - Uppingham
Admitted to Clare on 30 January 1875
Matriculated at Lent 1875
B.A. 1879
Cricket blue 1875-8
Played cricket for England, 1878-9, 1880, 1882, 1884

Master of Clare College, 1975-1993

Known as Robin

Born in Edinburgh in 1927
Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
1965-1975 - Professor of Political Economy at Oxford
1980-1991 - Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge
1975-1993 - Master of Clare College

Probably the son and heir of John Sanderson of Little Addington, Northamptonshire

Matriculated as a pensioner at Clare College April 1616

B.A. 1619/20

Admitted at Gray's Inn, 1 November 1619

Probably the brother of Laurence Sanderson (admitted to Clare College in 1622)

For more information see: Howcutt, Francis Cecily Sanderson of Little Abbington and Moulton

https://archive.org/details/cecily-sanderson-little-addington-moulton-v01/mode/2up

Born in Sheffield, the son of landscape painter James Henry Crossland and wife Mary Ann
School - Windermere Grammar

1894-1900 Student at University of London (gained BSc. in 1900)

9 July 1897 Admitted to Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1897 Scholar
Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1st Class, 1899
Part II, 1st Class, 1900
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904

1900 - 1902 Assistant to Sir Charles Eliot (British Consul-General at Zanzibar, Commissioner for East African Protectorate)

1902-1904 Assistant to Professor William Carmichael McIntosh at St Andrews University

July-Sept 1904 Collecting in the Cape Verde Islands

Oct 1904 - May 1905 Investigating fauna and flora of the Sudan Coast of the Red Sea

1905-1922 Director of the Sudan Pearl Fishery

6 Jan 1906 Married Catherine Mary Dobson

1923 Scientific research in England

1924-1926 Joined the St George expedition to the South Pacific in 1924

1927 Scientific research in England

11 June 1927 2nd marriage, to Danish national Hildur Thal-Jantzen

1928 - Returned to Tahiti, to study coral reefs

1930-38 Established and directed a marine biological station at Ghardaqa on the Red Sea Coast

1938-1943 Moved to Denmark with Hildur and their son Ingolf Crossland continuing scientific work at the University of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum until his death

Matriculated at Clare, 1969. Later became Senior Economics Lecturer, Buckinghamshire University, High Wycombe.