Mostrar 487 resultados

Admitted to Clare College and was a Fellow (1613-1631).

1618-1624 director to the affairs of the Virginia Company.
1626 ordained as a deacon and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.

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.

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.

Born at Southwick, Northants. on 22 Aug 1790. He was the son of the Rev. Joseph and Joanna Maria Smith.
Went to school at Eton.
Admitted to Clare as a pensioner on 1 May 1810 and matriculated in Michaelmas term 1810.
B.A. (9th Wrangler) 1814; M.A. 1817; B.D. 1833.
Fellow, 1815.
Junior Proctor, 1821-2.
Rector of Brington with Bythorn and Old Weston, Hunts., 1839-57.
Died on 30 January 1857, aged 66.
A benefactor to the College.

Born in 1835 and was the fourth son of Henry, merchant of London.
School: Tonbridge.
Admitted to Clare as a pensioner on 16 March 1853.
Matriculated at Easter 1853.
Scholar; B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1857; M.A. 1860.
Fellow, 1858-1916.

Deputy Bursar, 1863-1880, and Bursar, 1880-1895.
Mathematical Lecturer, 1863-95.

For a short time in the Indian Educational Dept.
An enthusiastic athlete, and member of the Alpine Club.
Lived latterly at Chumleigh, Devon.
Died 17 May 1916, at Torquay.