In 1326, the University, under the Chancellorship of Richard de Badew, founded University Hall, two messuages in Milne Street being assigned as a residence for its scholars. Little is known of the new college, but within a decade of its foundation, the founder was forced to seek a patron to rebuild the college, possibly after a disastrous fire. It was presumably Badew’s connection with the Clares that he turned to Lady Elizabeth de Clare for assistance and she refounded it as Clare Hall, endowing it with the advowsons of Littlington in 1336 and Great Gransden and Duxford in 1346, and providing it with a set of statutes in 1356. Thus provision was made for a Master and 15 Scholars (later called Fellows) and also 10 poor scholars.
Thanks to multiple endowments, including land at Potton, Everton and Gamlingay, Clare’s wealth and size grew steadily until it was necessary to completely rebuild the college. After a long legal wrangle, land was acquired from King’s College and between 1638 and the early eighteenth century, the buildings that form Old Court were erected together with the bridge which was completed in 1640. Further substantial additions to the College were not required until the twentieth century, when Memorial Court, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, built on the West side of the river, was opened in 1926 and extended later in the century. As admission numbers continued to rise, further extensions to College accommodation saw college property on Chesterton Lane consolidated into The Colony and St Regis Flats built on Chesterton Road.
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.
Admitted to Clare College, 23 January 1950. Studied Natural Sciences.
Born in St Albans and attended King's College in Taunton.
Matriculated at Clare in 1950 to study for the Natural Sciences Tripos.
Born in London the son of John and Susannah of Wardour Street, London
Admitted as a pensioner to Clare College on 13 June 1799
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1799
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806, D.D. 1818
Ordained deacon 1803, priest 1805. Vicar of Honington, Lincs. 1805-67
Married Harriet Brooke of Low Leyton, Essex at Knaresborough, Yorkshire. Father of Henry A. Coles born 1825.
Died on 24 October 1867
Matriculated at Clare, 1919
Collymore was from Barbados and suffered from Tuberculosis. As a result, despite studying Law, it was decided that teaching in the country would be better for his health than working in a city so he became a teacher at Lancing College where he taught Physics and Chemistry.
Son of John Copley of Nether Hall (admitted Fellow Commoner of Clare in 1678). Born at Nether Hall, Doncaster. Baptised 13 January 1684/85
Admitted Fellow Commoner at Clare, 19 June 1703.
2 December 1711 married Eleanor Shaw.
Died c. 1782.