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Person · c.1643-1694

School - Strixton, Northamptonshire

Admitted as a sizar at Clare on 16 May 1661; pensioner 1664
B.A. 1664/5; M.A. 1668

Vicar of Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire, 1668-74
Rector of Water Stratford, 1674
Calvinist preacher on the Millennium. 'Enthusiast and poet'
One of the earliest writers of hymns used in congregational worship
Buried at Water Stratford, 22 May 1694

Person · 1907-2004

Attended Oundle School, matriculated at Clare in 1925. He studied engineering and was later a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Awarded CBE and Knight of the Order of St John.
He died on 12 March 2004.

Person · 1722-1756

First son of John Mapletoft, Rector of Byfield, Northamptonshire. Baptised there on 17 November 1722

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 7 July 1739
Matriculated in 1740 ; B.A. 1743/4 ; M.A. 1748

Ordained deacon (Norwich) September 1745; priest (Peterborough) 25 September 1748
Chaplain to the East India Company, 1750

Died at Fulta, 1756, a fugitive from Calcutta

Person · 24 October 1942 - present

Usually known as Nicholas or Nico Mann

Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1942
Read modern languages and literature at King's College, Cambridge, and completed his PhD there in 1965
1965-1967 - Fellow at Clare College

In 1967 he took up a lectureship at the University of Warwick
In 1972 he went to Oxford, where he became a visiting fellow at All Souls in that year, and subsequently a Fellow and tutor at Pembroke from 1973
In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London
In 2007 he retired and was awarded an emeritus professorship in Renaissance studies in the University