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Matriculated at Clare, 1932.

From an Ulster family, son of Samuel Cunningham and Janet Muir Knox
School - Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and Fettes College in Edinburgh

Admitted to Clare College in 1928 where he read English with Mansfield Forbes, was a member of the Dilettanti Society and heavy-weight boxing champion

In the 1930s he studied law and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1939

During the Second World War he served in the Scots Guards although he continued his legal studies, and called to the Bar in Northern Ireland in 1942
Fought the Belfast West by-election in 1943 and the same seat in the 1945 general election
In the 1955 general election he was chosen as the new Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim
In 1959 he was made a Queen's Counsel

After the 1959 general election, he was picked by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. When Macmillan resigned, he awarded Cunningham a baronetcy in his resignation honours

Remained on the backbenches, known as one to the right of Ulster Unionism and a friend of Ian Paisley.
He retired at the 1970 general election

1973-74 - Master of the Drapers Company
1970-1976 - Provincial Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Gloucestershire
Member of the Apprentice Boys Club in Derry a

He died on 29 July 1976 aged 76

Military intelligence, the RUC and victims named Cunningham as a paedophile and identified his close links to the sex offender ring at Kincora Boys' Home, but MI5 denies this

Alfred Young was born on 16 April, 1873 in Widnes, Lancashire; his family moved to Bournemouth in 1879 and after being educated at home when to Monkton Combe School near Bath. He won a scholarship to Clare College and was admitted in 1892; excellent oarsman; began to undertake research in his third year which prevented him from achieving a very high position in the Tripos and so he was placed tenth Wrangler in 1895; he published his first paper in 1899, "The irreducible concomitants of any number of binary quartics" and in 1900 he introduced "young tableaus" the method for which he is best remembered; appointed as lecturer at Selwyn College in 1901 and Fellow at Clare in 1905 where he also became Bursar; married Edith Clara in 1907; ordained in 1908 and became a Curate at Christ Church, Hastings; also awarded a Sc. D from Cambridge; then parish priest at Birdbrook, Essex where he lived for the rest of his life, combining successfully the work of a parish priest with his researches in the theory of the algebra of groups. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934; he died on 15 December 1940. See obituary in Clare Association Annual 1947, pp. 99-101

Born in Birkenhead in 1902
School - Birkenhead School

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1924)
Demonstrator at Manchester University

1936 - Fellow of Clare College

1960 - elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960
1969 - Professor Emeritus

His major work was a three-volume treatise on tissue culture, "Cells and Tissue in Culture: methods, biology and physiology" (1965).

He created oil paintings detailing landscapes, mainly in Cambridgeshire and Mid Wales
He designed the Fellows' Garden in Clare College

Died - April 2001

Matriculated at Clare, 1960.

John Reynolds Wardale was admitted to Clare in 1878, became a Fellow in 1882, Junior Tutor in 1894, sole Tutor in 1915, remained as Lecturer until 1923.

Compiled the "Notes" from his research into the College records for "Clare College" (1899) as part of the series of University of Cambridge College histories, for "Clare College Letters and Documents" as well as for general interest.

Born in 1804, the 3rd son of the Revd Edmund Williamson, Rector of Campton, Bedfordshire
School - Westminster

Admitted as a pensioner at St John's College on 15 June 1820 but did not reside
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 2 Sept 1820
Matriculated Michaelmas 1821
Scholar, 1822
Bell Scholar, 1822
B.A. (2nd Wrangler, 2nd Smith's prize) 1825
M.A. 1828
B.D. 1843
Fellow, 1827-50
Tutor, 1839-50

Admitted ad eundem at Oxford, 1845
Admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 10 June 1825
Called to the Bar, 18 May 1830
Practised as an Equity Draftsman and Conveyancer until his return to Clare in 1839

Ordained deacon (Lichfield), 27 June 1841; priest (Ely), 5 June 1842
Rector of Datchworth, Hertfordshire, 1849-75

9 April 1850 married Jane Hutchinson, daughter of William Ferguson, M.D., Inspector-General of Military Hospitals

Died on 17 December 1875

Admitted sizar at Clare on 1 April 1857
Matriculated Michaelmas 1857; Scholar
B.A. 1861; M.A. 1864

Ordained deacon (Exeter) 1862; priest, 1863
Curate of St Mary Magdalen, Torquay, 1862-64
Assistant Master at Harrow School, 1864-69
Head Master of Elstree School, 1869-1904

Married Katherine Susan Oldfield
Died 10 Dec. 10 1904

Born in Wallington, Surrey
School - Repton School, Derbyshire

Admitted to Clare in 1928
He also had a B.Sc in physics from London University, which he apparently took as an external student while he was an undergraduate at Cambridge
He was a research student in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory and gained his Ph.D. in 1934

Joined the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology in Cambridge in 1933, serving as Demonstrator 1933-1945 and as Lecturer 1945-1977

During World War II he served with the Ministry of Supply where he worked on shell ballistics and experimental firings

1945 - returned to Clare College
1947 - elected a Fellow of St Catharine's College where he was a teacher and mentor to generations of students. His major academic contribution was his comprehensive book on Crystal Chemistry, published in 1939

1977 - he retired
He died in 2005

Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge 1960-1968.

Born on 9 May 1901 at Holmes, Rotherham, Yorkshire and later won an open scholarship from his school at Long Eaton and came to Clare College in 1919 where he read Botany, Geology and Chemistry for the first part of the Natural Science Tripos.

He began work on the vegetation of Wicken Fen which saw the start of his contributions on the history of the British Flora.

In 1925 he was elected Fellow of Clare and became well established in the Department of Botany.
He became Secretary of the British Ecological Society in 1932 and later edited The New Phytologist.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945 in recognition of his achievements in ecology and also helped to establish the University Subdepartment of Quaternary Research which flourished under his directorship. During this time new fields of investigation were established such as radiocarbon dating.
He was appointed Professor of Botany in 1960, a year after he had been Acting Master at Clare (1958-1959).
He was knighted ten years later in 1970 and two years afterwards he retired in 1968.

See obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1984-5, pp. 76-79; Obituary by Prof. Richard West in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 34, 1988.