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Pessoa singular · 5 May 1542 - 7 February 1623

Born in Cambridge on 5 May 1542, the eldest son of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520/21–1598), and his first wife, Mary (c.1520–1544).

Educated at home by tutors
Matriculated Fellow-Commoner from Trinity, Michaelmas 1558
M.A. 1571
Admitted at Gray's Inn

In 1561 Thomas's father sent him abroad to complete his education. Once he reached Paris he began to enjoy life and neglect his studies. His father accused him of being 'slothful in keeping his bed, rash in expenses, careless in his apparel, an unordinate lover of dice and cards; in study soon weary, in game never'. He seems to have amended his ways and completed his grand tour by visiting Antwerp, Speyer, Heidelberg, and Frankfurt, before returning home early in 1563 after an absence of nearly two years.

In 1564 he married Dorothy Neville, daughter of Lord Latimer of Belvoir Castle. They had thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters. Dorothy died in 1609 and a year later Cecil married Frances Smith, a thirty-year-old widow, less than half his age and younger than almost all his children. They had one daughter, who died in infancy.

He was MP for Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1562, 1571, 1572; for Lincolnshire, 1584-86; for Northamptonshire in 1592

In 1569 he helped to suppress the revolt of the northern earls.
In 1573 he volunteered to help the Scottish regent, Morton, storm Edinburgh Castle.
In 1575 he was knighted by the queen during a tournament at Kenilworth.
In 1585 when the Earl of Leicester was sent with an army to help the Dutch, Thomas Cecil was made captain of horse and governor of the English-controlled port of Brill, although he soon resigned on grounds of ill health.
In July 1588, when the Spanish Armada invaded he was made colonel in an army set up to defend 'Her Majesty's person'.
In 1601 as colonel-general of the London foot he helped his half-brother Robert Cecil smash the rebellion of the Earl of Essex.
In 1590 he had become the lord of the manor of Wimbledon and there built an impressive mansion. Over the next 10 years he entertained the Queen here on several occasions.
He was given a commission as Lord President of York (or President of the Council of the North) with special orders to hunt down Catholic recusants.
In 1598 on the death of his father he became second Baron Burghley.
For his part in crushing the Essex revolt he received the Garter.
When James I became king, he was first made a member of the Privy Council.
In 1605 he was made Earl of Exeter, at the same time as Robert was created Earl of Salisbury.

In 1617 his wife Frances was accused of plotting to poison Lady Lake, wife of one of the secretaries of state. The scandal became the talk of London. It was a very complicated affair, and the evidence was said to fill 17,000 sheets of paper. The Earl appealed to the King, who took such an interest in the case that he presided in person in Star Chamber and then went down to Wimbledon to test the chief witnesses. Finally he pronounced the Countess innocent and sentenced Lady Lake and her husband to the Tower for life.

Cecil died, probably at Wimbledon, on 7 February 1623.

Boys, William (c.1562-1631), Fellow of Clare College
Pessoa singular · c.1562-1631

Matriculated as a pensioner from Clare College Lent term 1577/8
B.A. from Magdalene College 1580/1
M.A. 1584
Probably Fellow of Clare College
Proctor 1599

25 September 1827 - 29 April 1914

Born on 25 September 1827 in Great Glemham, Suffolk
Son of Captain Edwin Bloomfield
Admitted as pensioner to Pembroke College in 1846 and matriculated in 1846
Migrated to Clare College in 1847
B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1859, M.A. 1853
Made a Fellow in 1850.
Ordained deacon 1853, priest (Ely) 1854
Rector of Guestling, Sussex 1862–1914
Botanist
Died 29 April 1914 at Guestling

Cave, Thomas (1693-1756), clergyman
Pessoa singular · 1693 - 27 May 1756

Born in 1693 in Catthorpe
Probably the son of John Cave of Catthorpe, Leicestershire
Admitted as a sizar to Clare College on 12 April 1711
B.A. 1714/15
Ordained as deacon Lincoln 1715, priest 1718. Curate of Melton Mowbray
Died 27 May 1756

Jackson, James (1608-1689), Fellow of Clare College
Pessoa singular · 1608-1686

Born 1608
Matriculated from Clare College as a pensioner in Michaelmas Term 1626
B.A. 1629, M.A. 1633, M.D. 1657
Fellow 1631-86
Senior Proctor 1643
Died in College 1686

Ambler, Paul
Pessoa singular

Matriculated at Clare, 1965.

Pessoa singular · 19 April 1897 - 2 September 1971

Known to friends as Sebastian and also known as Jack Sprott.

Born at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams

School - Felsted School
Clare College where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles

He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools
In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group
He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova

After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham, where he eventually became professor of philosophy

He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk

Pessoa singular · 1887-1966

He was the son of Reverend Richard Edward Hull Kingston of Aglish, County Waterford, and Frances Sandiford. Most of his early life was spent in the family home at Horsehead in Passage West, County Cork. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at University College Cork. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with first-class honours in 1910, and almost immediately obtained a position in the Indian Medical Service. In 1913, he was seconded from military duty as naturalist to the Indo-Russian Pamir triangulation expedition. In 1914 he went on war service and saw action in East Africa, France, Mesopotamia, and the N.W. Frontier, gaining two mentions in dispatches and the Military Cross for gallantry in action. He wrote several books based on his travels and natural history observations. He was the medical officer on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition on which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine died.

Paske, William (1615-1656), Fellow of Clare College
Pessoa singular · 1615-1656

Admitted as a sizar to Clare College in 1633
B.A. 1637/8; M.A. 1641; LL.D 1648

Fellow of Clare College
Admitted advocate of Doctor’s Commons, London 1648

Died 1656