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Born on 23 Feb 1880 at Hampstead, the youngest son of Arthur Henry of Potterspury Lodge, Northants and Georgina Tregonning
School - Farnborough
Admitted to Clare College on 9 Oct 1899

Studied at Frank Calderon's school of animal painting, the Slade School and London School of Art
Landscape painter
A.R.A., 1936; R.A., 1943
Member, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
Works in Tate Gallery (Chantry Bequest), City of Birmingham Art Gallery, Liverpool, Brighton, Hull, Nottingham, and other English Art Galleries; in the National Galleries of Victoria, N.S. Wales, and Pietermaritzburg, and in Minneapolis Art Gallery, U.S.A.

Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Royal Devon Yeomanry and Naval Division)

Died 21 May 1968

John Edmund Misaubin was born in London and matricuated at Clare in 1735. He was the son of John (Jean) Misaubin who was a learned physician in London and the subject of the article. Murdered in 1740 by foot pads in London.

Lettice Ramsey (née Baker, 1898 -1985) was a graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, and she married Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, Frank Ramsey (son of A.S. Ramsey, President of Magdalene College) in 1926. Frank died in 1930 and Lettice looked for a new way to support herself and her two young daughters. In 1932 she set up in the photographic business with Helen Muspratt, a Dorset photographer who had trained at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Lettice had the Cambridge contacts to get the firm work while Helen had the photographic skills and experience.

In 1937 Helen Muspratt moved to Oxford and set up a second studio for the firm there. While the partnership continued, Helen ran the Oxford Studio and Lettice the Cambridge one.

Nicholas Lee took over the business in 1978 when Lettice retired. The business was then purchased by Peter Lofts in 1980. There is an extensive indexed negative collection from the firm in the Cambridgeshire Collection, deposited by Peter Lofts after he bought up the business.

Ramsey and Muspratt are best known for their portrait work. Their sympathetic, well lit images quickly made the firm fashionable, photographing the up and coming and influential throughout the 1930s, including Anthony Blunt and Virginia Woolf. The firm also undertook a wide range of commercial photography.

Copyright and Reproductions
The negatives that survive from the studio and copyright are held in the Cambridgeshire Collection, the local studies department of Cambridgeshire Libraries.
Contact - Mary Burgess, Local Studies Librarian, Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library, (01223) 699755, Cambridgeshire.Collection@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

This was partly repeated from the display that had been set up in May 2006.

There were two visits during 2010 for which displays were arranged: the first in March 2010 by a group from the WEA class held in Great Gransden led by local historian and teacher, Honor Ridout and the second by a smaller group from the village society, led by Val Davison in preparation for a further visit by the society in June 2011.

Master of College 1958-1975

Rhoda Bass (b. 27th July 1909) took over as Lodging House Keeper of Braeside in 1958 until 1983 but continued to live there until 1990 when her husband Arthur Bass died. Arthur Bass had worked in the SCR/Pantry for 8yrs (1975 -83). Many of her "Old Boys" as she called them kept in touch over the years. Her daughter Billie (Hostelkeeper at the colony 1978, Senior Housekeeper, 1986 - 2001) and her husband Peter Allinson (Clare Fellow's Butler from 1982 and under Butler from 1976) have also worked for Clare.

(1905 -1993) matriculated at Clare, 1925, came from Harrow School and read Natural Sciences. An enthusiastic athlete he was Secretary and then President of College Athletics. Club The half mile was his speciality.

Matriculated at Clare, 1919.