Born on 11 October 1905 in Kensington the son of Charles Alexander Hill.
School - Harrow
Admitted to Clare on 15 July 1925 to read Natural Sciences.
He was secretary and then president of the Athletics Club with the half-mile being his speciality.
Senior member of Clare with dining rights in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Was involved with establishing the University Centre and University College (now Wolfson College).
Matriculated at Clare, 1919.
Member of the Music Society Committee from 1920
1928-1967 - Secretary to the University Board of Extra Mural Studies
1963-1967 - Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
1947-49 and 1962-63 - Mayor of Cambridge
Admitted to Clare in 1938. Distinguished military career; awarded an MC during Emergency in Malaya.
Master of Clare College 1993-2003.
Born in 1934 the son of Alexander Hepple (Leader of the South African Labour Party), and Josephine Zwarenstein.
Educated at Jeppe High School for Boys (1947–1951), the University of the Witwatersrand (B.A.,1954, LLB cum laude and Society of Advocates Prize for Best Law Graduate, 1957), and the University of Cambridge (LLB, 1966, LLD 1993).
1959-1962 - lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand
1962-1963 - Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar
Active as a student leader against racial segregation in the universities, worked as an adviser and assistant in the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and participated in the underground struggle against apartheid. He acted as legal adviser to Nelson Mandela in his trial for incitement in 1962, and was arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, with leaders of the African National Congress and Communist Party on 11 July 1963. He was held in 90-day detention without trial. He was discharged on 30 October 1963 and managed to escape to England in November 1963.
1964-1966 - graduate student at Clare College
1966-1968 - lectureship in law at the University of Nottingham
1969-1976 - Fellow of Clare College and university lecturer
1976 - Professor of Social and Labour Law at the University of Kent
1977-1982 (full time), 1974-1977 (part time), 1982–1993 - chairman of Industrial Tribunals
1982-1993 - Professor of English Law at University College London
1989-1993 - Dean and Head of the Faculty of Laws
In 1993 he was elected Master of Clare College and was appointed Professor of Law at the University (1995–2001)
2003 - elected as a Fellow of the British Academy
Awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Kent, and the Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy, and was Hon. Professor of Law in the University of Cape Town (1999–2006).
2004 - Knight Bachelor for services to legal studies
2013 - Awarded the first Labour Law Research Network Award for Distinguished Contributions to Labour Law
2014 - received the South African Order of Luthuli (Gold) for his exceptional contribution to the struggle for democracy and human rights
Barrister and Bencher of Gray's Inn
1996 - appointed Queen's Counsel (hon)
1994-1999 - served on the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on Legal Education and Conduct
2000-2002 - served on the Legal Services Panel
2007-2009 - Judge and senior vice-president of the UN Administrative Tribunal
2000-2003 - member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, chair from 2003 to 2007
2000-2002 - Chaired the council's Working Parties on Genetics and human behaviour and The forensic use of bioinformation (2006–2007)
1986-1990 - member of the Commission for Racial Equality
1989-2007 - trustee of the Canon Collins Educational Trust for South Africa
2001-2007 - Chair of the European Roma Rights Centre
2007-2014 - Chair of the Equal Rights Trust
2012 - elected Hon President of the Industrial Law Society
2014 - elected Hon President of the Equal Rights Trust
He died on 21 August 2015
Born in Hamburg, Germany and educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago (New Zealand)
1954 - came to the University of Cambridge on a Shell Post-Graduate Scholarship to do his Ph.D. in physics (1956) as student of Sir Nevill Mott
1955 - Fellow of Clare College and
1976 - became a professor and took over as head of the theory group at the Cavendish Laboratory, a position that he held until his retirement in 1997
1974 - elected Fellow of the Royal Society
At Clare between 1952-55
Admitted sizar at Clare, 20 August 1635.
Matriculated 1636.
B.A. 1639-40; M.A. 1643; D.D. 1661 (Lit. Reg.).
Fellow, 1642-4 (ejected); restored, 1660. He was one of 4 Fellows restored at the Restoration.
On 27 August 1661 he was required to go with Sir Richard Fanshaw to Portugal in connection with King Charles II's marriage to Catherine of Braganza.
Incorporated at Oxford, 1664.
Fellow of Eton College, 1661-70.
Canon of Windsor, 1662-70.
Vicar of New Windsor, 1662.
Died 23 June 1670. Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor M.I.
He was a man of great generosity and was devoted to his College. He gave half of the profits of his Fellowship for the last year to the building fund and in his will left £700 to the same fund..
Donald Hearn served as Bursar of Clare from 2001 until 2013.
Prior to his appointment as Bursar, Donald was Finance Director at the Royal Horticultural Society for fifteen years. Following his retirement from Clare he continues to be actively involved with a number of charities, University Committees and pension schemes.