Admitted pensioner at Clare College, 25 May, 1687
B.A. 1690/1
M.A. 1694
Exeter Fellow, 1693-1710.
Ordained priest (Lincoln) 3 June 1694
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1708-43
Vicar of Gamlingay, 1710
Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely
Died on 19 February 1742/3, aged 72; buried at Gransden
Sir Harold Jeffreys was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the objective Bayesian view of probability.
Jeffreys studied for the Mathematical Tripos at St John's College, Cambridge, where he established a reputation as an excellent student: obtaining first-class marks for his papers in Part One of the Tripos, he was a Wrangler in Part Two, and in 1915 he was awarded the prestigious Smith's Prize.
In 1914 he became a Fellow of St John's College, and he retained his Fellowship until his death 75 years later. At the University of Cambridge he taught mathematics, then geophysics and finally became the Plumian Professor of Astronomy.
School - Wakefield School
Admitted to Clare College on 22 April 1898
Matriculated Michaelmas term 1898
Scholar and Exhibitioner
BA 3rd Wrangler, 1901
Mathematical Tripos Part II, 1st Class (1902)
MA 1905
Born 1608
Matriculated from Clare College as a pensioner in Michaelmas Term 1626
B.A. 1629, M.A. 1633, M.D. 1657
Fellow 1631-86
Senior Proctor 1643
Died in College 1686
Admitted to Clare in 1922
Purchased Gatwick Airport in 1933 and is noted for inventing the concept of the circular airport terminal building, which was subsequently copied all over the world until air travel outgrew it.
In 1932 Robert S. Hutton was elected the first Goldsmith's Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
He sought admission to Clare College and this was granted in 1936. He remained a Fellow until his death in 1970.
Matriculated at Clare in 1931.
Microbiologist, Clare 1961; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 for for his discovery of cyclin and its role in the cell cycle. Filming at Clare College in September 2009 for "Beautiful minds"
Admitted to Clare in 1961 to study Natural Sciences, graduating in 1964 and immediately beginning work in the university Department of Biochemistry
Matriculated at Clare, 1883.
Born in Aberystwyth the son the the revd Joshua
Schools - Leamington College and Llandovery, Carms
Admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College on 29 January 1853
Matriculated at MIchaelmas 1853
B.A. 1857; M.A. 1867
1883 - Became a Fellow of Clare College
1889 - Fellow of the Royal Society
1860 - Appointed Secretary to the British Consul at Rome
1861 - Joined the Geological Survey of England, 1861
1873 - 1917 - Woodwardian Professor of Geology
President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1879-80 and 1889-90
1891 - Lyell medal of the Geological Society
1892 - President of the Philosophical Society
Died 9 June 1917
Matriculated at Clare College in 1944.
A Bursary has been set up at Clare in his memory as the Howard Bursary for scientists with preference for those reading Chemistry.