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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

Born in Hong Kong the son of G.M. Dalety
School - Charterhouse

Matriculated at Clare, 1946 to study Law
1947 Law Qual 2 2nd class
1948 Law Tripos II 2:2
1949 LLB 2:1

Died 2004

Brother of Euan Campbell Dalgety who matriculated in 1943 and who was killed while in the RAF

Born in London
Educated at George Heriot's School and University of Edinburgh (M.A. Hons. 1933, PhD 1943)
Further study at Clare (B.A. 1935)

1957 - first Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham. He stayed at the university till his retirement in 1978
1974 - 1975 - President of the Royal Statistical Society
1984 - awarded its Guy Medal in Gold (following a silver medal in 1947)
1980 - Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980

Matriculated at Clare, 1966.

Politician and diplomat. For 31 years he served as a Labour Member of Parliament. He was also British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Educated at Haileybury and Clare College where he was an athlete, and president of the Cambridge Union Society. Two years at Yale followed, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law.

Born to Maha Vidane Mudaliar Gabriel de Sampayo in Colombo on 10 September 1855

Educated at St Benedict's College (former Kottanchina Seminary) before gaining a Queen's scholarship to study at the Colombo Academy (now Royal College, Colombo)
He excelled in school, winning the Form Prize, Prizes for Latin and Maths, and the Turnour Prize
He won the English University Scholarship to the University of Cambridge and study at Clare graduating in 1881 with a LLB
In later years he would name his mansion at Silversmith Street Clareden after Clare College
1881 - called to the Bar from the Middle Temple

On returning to Ceylon he started his legal practice in Colombo. He also served as a lecturer and examiner at the newly established Ceylon Law College, and was co-editor of the Ceylon Law Reports

In 1903 he was sworn in as a King's Counsel and was appointed as a Commissioner of Assize

In 1915 he was appointed a Puisne Justice and was made a senior Puisne Justice in 1922
He functioned as Acting Chief Justice on several occasions
In 1924 was made Knight Bachelor by the King

A devoted Christian, he was the first President of the Catholic Union of Ceylon. The Pope conferred on him the award of Knight Commander in the Holy Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Born in Palmanova, Friuli, Italy and educated at the University of Florence (1916–1920) graduating with a degree in Natural Sciences.

First World War - served in the military corps of the alpini and was captured by the Austrians.

Worked in the Universities of Florence, Pavia (1923–1924) and Milan (1924–1927) and as a consultant geologist for the Edison Company for hydroelectric plants in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey and Brazil, and the same capacity for the Public Power Corporation of Greece.
1973 he became Professor Emeritus at the University of Milan.

Led geographical and geological expeditions in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He also explored Antarctica.

In 1954 he led the Italian expedition to K2 when Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit

He spent his last four years in Rome, where he died in December 2001, aged 104.

Reunion dinners are arranged by the Development Office and a photograph is taken at each event.

Matriculated pensioner from Clare College October 1607
Of Liss, Hampshire
Benefactor to Clare College