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Person · c.1670-1743

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

Person · 20 February 1878 - 15 August 1912

Born in Goginan, Cardiganshire and educated at Lewis School Pengam and the University of Wales, Aberystwth.
Matriculated at Clare in 1897 to study Natural Sciences.
1899 BA and 1903 MA.

1 August 1912 married Muriel Gwendolen Edwards, a colleague and keen climber. She was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the University of Wales.

1901 - demonstrator to the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Sir James Dewar.
1902 became a Fellow of Clare College and then a lecturer.

1907 - became a keen climber after receiving some tuition in Snowdonia.
1909 - member of the Alpine Club.

Jones and his wife were killed in an accident on their honeymoon in Switzerland, while climbing the Aiguille Rouge de Peuterey 2941m a subpeak of Aiguille Noire de Peuterey on 15 August 1912 in Italy. Their guide, Julius Truffer, slipped and fell on Jones, and all three dropped nearly 1,000 feet to the Fresnay Glacier.

Person · c.1914 - 27 November 1990

William Clifford Jones was from the Rhondda Valley and attended LLandovery College before coming to Clare in 1933 "to read law and play rugby". He was awarded three Blues and thirteen Caps for Wales whom he captained in 1938.

After leaving Clare he qualified as a solicitor.
During the Second World War he served as a major with the Control Commission.
He later gave up being a lawyer and joined his father in the family business.

He came back to Welsh rugby in 1957 as a selector, was chairman of the committee for a period, and served until 1978.
He played a significant part in the establishment of the national coaching scheme and the squad training system which underpinned the success of the Welsh team in the late 1960s and the 70s.
In 1979 he was awarded the OBE.1980-81 was President of the Welsh Rugby Union.

Obituary: The Clare Association Annual, 1990-91, pg. 72

Person · 17 April 1889 - 1973

Born on 17 April 1889 the son of P. Keen.
School - Charterhouse

Admitted to Clare on 22 July 1908.
Read law and entered Inner Temple but death of his father led to him becoming head of the family firm of granary keepers and lighterman in Rotherhithe.
Became Chairman and President of the Model Railway Club.
Died in 1973.

Obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1973-4, p. 70

Person · 15 July 1896 - 14 July 1916

Originally from Barnsley, William Kelsey came to Clare in 1914 and is pictured in the 1914 matriculation photograph. He received his commission on his 19th birthday, serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He was grievously wounded in France on 14 July 1916, later dying of his injuries at the Empire Hospital in London. His name is included on the College War Memorial plaque in the Chapel.

Lafayette Photography
Corporate body · 1880 - present

In 1970 Stearn and Son joined Eaden Lilley Photographers.
The copyright of the photos taken by Eaden Lilley has now passed to Lafayette Photography.

Person · 1662 - 28 July 1723

Born in London in 1662
20 October 1680 admitted as a sizar at Clare College
Matriculated in 1681
B.A. 1684/5
M.A. 1691 (Lit. Reg.)
D.D. 1717 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow of Clare College 1686-1723
Senior proctor 1709-10
A popular tutor and ardent supporter of the Newtonian system

Vicar of Quy-cum-Stow, Cambridgeshire, 1709
Prebend of Worcester, 1717-23
Chaplain to George I.

Died 28 July 1723

Person · 26 October 1889 – 29 April 1971

Li Siguang, also known as J. S. Lee, was a Chinese geologist and politician. He was the founder of China's geomechanics. He made outstanding contributions, which changed the situation of "oil deficiency" in the country, enabling the large-scale development of oil fields to raise the country to the ranks of the world's major oil producers.

Li studied in Osaka Technical College in Japan and the University of Birmingham in UK in his early years. He became a geological professor at Peking University upon his return from abroad in 1920. Li Siguang was Wuhan University building preparatory chairman from July 1928 to April 1938. He was the president of the National Central University (Nanjing University) in 1932.

After the People's Republic of China was established, Li held the positions of vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and minister of geology.