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Edward Leigh (1913-1998)

Working Dates: 1946 -1983

Edward Leigh was one of the few professional photographers to obtain a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society as well as a Fellowship of the Institute of British Photographers (the professional photographers' own body).

His photographic career spanned over 50 years. Before WW2 he worked as a fashion photographer and a stills cameraman for Fox Film Studios, later 20th Century Fox. During the war his printing skills were employed by RAF Oakington to process at great speed the aerial recognisance photographs which were assembled into the mosaic maps used by Bomber Command.

After the war Edward set up his own studio on Kings Parade in the centre of Cambridge, living on the premises. Edward did a great deal of work for University Departments and Cambridge Colleges, Including matriculation and graduation photos, portraits of fellows and visiting Royals. Many of his architectural photographs have been used for decades in books on Cambridge. He was a much sought after industrial photographer, skilled in the use of lighting and good at composition.

When Edward retired, his son John Edward Leigh took over the business, still at 22 Derby Road, Cambridge, which he listed as specialising in advertising photography, for a short period around 1983-85, before the business finally closed.

Working for Edward Leigh at different times were Doug Rattle, Peter Lofts and Frank Bird.

Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944. One of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union. He was paroled in 1948. He was a prominent academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932 to 1943, rector 1956 to 1962, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death.

Born on 11 October 1877 in Willington, Durham
Son of Archibald William and Anne Elliott, of Springfield House, Willington, Durham

He was educated at Durham Grammar School
Admitted as a sub-sizar at Trinity College in 1896
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904; M.D. 1908 (Natural Science Tripos, Part I, 1st Class 1900; Part II, 1st Class (1901))
Fellow Clare College 1908
Fellow of the Royal Society 1913
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1915
Lecturer University College Hospital 1913

Served in the First World War as Consulting Physician: B.E.F.; Colonel: Army Medical Service 1917; DSO 1918. Mentioned in Dispatches twice

Professor of Medicine, London University

Died in 1961

Geoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was born in Tubingen, Germany in 1921 as Gottfried Rudolf Ehrenberg. His parents were the scholars Victor Ehrenberg and Eva Dorothea Sommer. Elton's family fled to Britain in 1939 and Elton later graduated in Ancient History from the University of London. He enlisted in the British Army in 1943 and became a British citizen in 1947. He later taught at the University of Glasgow and from 1949 onwards at Clare College, Cambridge University and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to 1988. He was knighted in 1986. Elton worked as publication secretary of the British Academy from 1981 to 1990 and served as the president of the Royal Historical Society from 1972 to 1976. He married a fellow historian, Sheila Lambert, in 1952. He died in 1994. Lady Elton later died in 2006.

Born in 1855 the son and heir of Hugh, clerk, vicar of Scremerston, Durham
School - Durham

Admitted to Clare College on 20 March 1875

Matriculated Michaelmas 1875
Scholar, 1876
B.A. 1879; M.A. 1882; Sc.D. 1923

Esquire Bedell, 1900-20
Ornithologist
Author, Birds; Short Flora of Cambs., and other ornithological and botanical works.
Joint editor of The Ibis
Joint author of Aves Hawaiienses

Died on 28 March 1943

Born in 1835 and was the fourth son of Henry, merchant of London.
School: Tonbridge.
Admitted to Clare as a pensioner on 16 March 1853.
Matriculated at Easter 1853.
Scholar; B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1857; M.A. 1860.
Fellow, 1858-1916.

Deputy Bursar, 1863-1880, and Bursar, 1880-1895.
Mathematical Lecturer, 1863-95.

For a short time in the Indian Educational Dept.
An enthusiastic athlete, and member of the Alpine Club.
Lived latterly at Chumleigh, Devon.
Died 17 May 1916, at Torquay.

Admitted to Clare College on 20 March 1875
Matriculated Michaelmas 1875 Scholar
B.A. (Class. Tripos, 1st Class) 1879
M.A. 1882; B.D. 1896; D.D. 1905

Fellow, 1881-87
Select Preacher, 1889

Ordained deacon (Ely) 1881
Ordained priest (St David's) 1883
Curate of St Barnabas, Cambridge, 1881-82

Professor of Latin in St David's College, Lampeter, 1882-88
Head Master, King's School, Chester, 1888-92
Rector of Fornham All Saints' with Westley, Suffolk, 1892-1904
Rector of Duxford, Cambs., 1904-10
Rector of Ripple, Kent, 1910-26

His edition of The Remains of Dionysius Alexandrinus, published in Cambridge Patristic Texts, 1904, is of lasting importance.
He edited other liturgiological works, and left a collection of books on this subject to the College library.

Joint editor, Vetus Liber Archidiaconi Eliensis (Cambridge Antiquarian Society)

Died 25 August 1926

Admitted to Clare College and was a Fellow (1613-1631).

1618-1624 director to the affairs of the Virginia Company.
1626 ordained as a deacon and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.

The Finance Committee first appears in 1926 as a separate entity from the Council or Governing Body

Born in Prussia in 1841. Son of John Frederick Lewis, merchant of Burg, Magdeburg, Prussia.

Admitted pensioner (age 27) at Pembroke, on 1 May 1841
Matriculated Michaelmas 1841.
B.A. (4th Wrangler) in 1845.
Migrated to Clare. M.A. 1848.
1848 Exeter Fellow; 1848 Diggons Fellow; 1853-60 Fellow of Clare College.
Naturalised 22 February 1848.
Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at St Andrews, 1847-59, and of Mathematics, 1859-79. Resigned.
Hon. LL.D., from St Andrews, 1869.
Fellow of the Royal Society.

Married Sarah Sophia, daughter of Benjamin Cotton, of Upton Manor, Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Died 8 January 1890.
Father of Max Temple (admitted to Clare in 1880), and Francis Norton (admitted to Clare in 1886).