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.
Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 9 April 1851
Matriculated Michaelmas 1851
B.A. 1855; M.A. 1859
Ordained deacon, 1856; priest (Exeter) 1857
Second Master of Queen Mary's School, Walsall, 1858-60
Head Master of King Edward's School, Stafford, 1860-70
Vicar of St Chad's, Stafford, 1866-70
Rector of Orcheston St Mary, Wiltshire, 1876-88
Vicar of Little Malvern, Worcestershire, 1895-7. Resided latterly at Malvern Wells.
Died there on 7 December 1920.
School - Doncaster Grammar, and at Yorkshire College, Leeds
Admitted as a scholar at Clare College on 21 March 1884
Natural Sciences Tripos Pt I, 1st Class, 1886
B.A. 1888; M.A. 1892
Athletics 'blue,' 1887
Ph.D. (Würzburg); F.I.C. Junior Demonstrator in Chemistry at Cambridge, 1888.
University Extension Lecturer, 1891-3
Lecturer on Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 1894-98
Professor of Chemistry, Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand, 1899-1919
President, Chemical Section, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1909
During the Great War, 1914-19, member of N.Z. Munitions Committee
Director, Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research, Nelson, N.Z. 1919-33
President, N.Z. Institute, 1920, 1921
K.B.E., 1938
Author, Papers on organic chemistry.
3rd son of Orlando, banker, of Stamford, Lincolnshire
School - Cheltenham College
Admitted as a pensioner at St John's College, 12 June 1862
Matriculated from Clare College in 1863
Migrated to Clare, 15 April 1863
Scholar, 1863
B.A. 1866; M.A. 1869
Assistant Master at Wakefield School, Yorks., 1866
Ordained Deacon, 1871
Ordained priest (Gloucester and Bristol) 1872
Curate of Stroud, Gloucs., 1871-7
Curate of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 1879-84
Vicar of Great Gransden, Hunts., 1884-1914
Author, Lays of Great Gransden; A History of Great Gransden
Died 19 June 1914 at Great Gransden
John Reynolds Wardale (1859-1931) 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.
Richard Eden, Emeritus Professor of Energy Studies, was elected Fellow of Clare College in 1951, also becoming Director of Studies in Mathematics. He was closely involved in the founding of Clare Hall in 1966 and in that year he also became a Fellow of Clare Hall, where after retirement he is now an Honorary Fellow. He is the author of Clare College and the founding of Clare Hall, (Clare Hall, 1998).
Born at Old Warden, Bedfordshire in 1795 the eldest son of the Revd Edmund, Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 1 July 1814
Matriculated Michaelmas 1814
B.A. 1818; M.A. 1821
Ordained deacon, 1819; priest, 1821
Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire (succeeding his father), 1839-64
Founder of the Bedford Library; Hon. Secretary and Vice-President
Died 7 August 1864, aged 68
Born in Cambridge in 1802.
Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 20 November 1819
Matriculated Michaelmas 1820
B.A. (30th Wrangler) 1824
M.A. 1827
Fellow, 1829-71
Chaplain of St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1841-60
Died in 1871
Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge 1960-1968.
He was 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 also wrote his classic work at this time, The History of The British Flora. Eventually 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.
Matriculated at Clare, 1903. Changed his name from Schulhop.