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Master of Clare College, 1713-1726

Son of Thomas Grigg of Middlesex
Admitted pensioner at Jesus College on 24 September 1684
Matriculated in 1685
Scholar, 1685, from St Paul's School, London
Rustat scholar at Jesus
B.A. 1688/9
M.A. 1697
D.D. (Com. Reg.) 1717

Fellow, 1696-1714

Master of Clare 1713-1726
He was nominated by the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor of the University as the votes of the society were equally divided.
“We know but little about him, but that little does not tend to give us a very high opinion of his character”, Wardale, J.R. *College Histories: Clare College”.

Vice-Chancellor, 1716-17
Ordained Priest at Lincoln, 8 June 1707
Vicar of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1705
Vicar of All Saints', Cambridge, 1707-17
Rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1717-26
Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset

Died 9 April 1726

Master of Clare College, 1713-26

Born in 1666 the son of Thomas Grigg of Middlesex
School - St Paul's School, London

Admitted as a pensioner at Jesus College on 24 September 1684
Matriculated 1685
Rustat scholar
B.A. 1688/9; M.A. 1697
D.D. (Com. Reg.) 1717
Fellow, 1696-1714

Master of Clare College, 1713-26
He was nominated by the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor as the votes of the society were equally divided

Vice-Chancellor, 1716-7

Ordained priest (Lincoln) 08 June 1707
Vicar of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1705
Vicar of All Saints, Cambridge, 1707-17
Rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1717-26
Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset

Died on 9 April 1726

Admitted to Clare College on 14 January 1931 where he took Classics and graduated in Law.

In his student days, Greenwood developed a lifelong passion for mountaineering, scaling numerous peaks in the Alps, Dolomites, Tyrol, and Norway, as well as mountains closer to home in Scotland and Wales. He was elected to the Alpine Club at the age of 24. His mountaineering expertise proved crucial during his military service in the Second World War. He went on to marry a fellow-mountaineer. He celebrated his 80th birthday by scaling the 6121-meter high Stok Kangri Himalayan peak in Ladakh.

1940 - joined the Royal Artillery as a temporary Captain.
1943 - at a mountain warfare conference at Lochailort, Scotland, he was transferred to the New Zealand Squadron as a climbing instructor for mountain warfare. He accompanied the New Zealand Squadron in its ultimately doomed attempt to occupy the Italian controlled Dodecanese Islands. Escaping to Turkey, he went on to become a liaison officer for the Long Range Desert Group of a British brigade in Montenegro in 1945. In June 1945, he joined the Allied Military Government Organization in Austria, serving until March 1946. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Colonial Office. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944.

1946 - Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Uganda
1947 - Registrar
1950 - Resident Magistrate

1952 - called to the bar at London's Inner Temple
1954 - Crown Counsel
1956 - served briefly as Solicitor General of Fiji
1956-1963 - Attorney General
1963 - Attorney General of Gibraltar
He later filled in as Acting Attorney General of Montserrat, as well as a legal adviser in Hong Kong. He was also to spend a year in Washington, D.C. as an adviser to the Telstar Conference

Married fellow mountaineer Rosemary Farmborough Howard in 1956. They had first climbed together before the war. Up until 1978, they together climbed mountains in New Zealand, Austria, Italy, Greece, Nepal, India and Peru. They both belonged to the Eagle Ski Club.

Born c. 1678
Son of Robert Greene, a mercer of Tamworth, Staffs

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on the 8 October 1694
BA 1700
MA 1703
Fellow 1703-1730
Ordained London 1705
DD 1728
Died 1730

"Dr Goddard's note says: 'He published a large folio of his own Philosophy'. This was i n1712. In it he combated the Newtonian views. He maintained that there was no such thing as vacuum and that the circle could be squared; held strange views of gravity, and regarded the new system as tending to undermine revelation. It appears that he was thought by his contemporaries (not without some reason) to be mad". [Wardale, J.R., College Histories Clare College pp.150-151]

William Greaves was born in Rochdale, Lancs and was the son of William, of Gartside Hall, Lancashire.
He was admitted to Clare on 26 January 1719/20.
B.A. 1720/1. M.A. 1724
Fellow, 1722-42.

Admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 03 June 1724 and at the Inner Temple on 09 November 1727.
Commissary of the University, 1726-79.
Steward of the estates of Trinity College.

Married a daughter of Beaupré Bell.
Succeeded to his estates at Outwell, Norfolk, and assumed the name of Beaupré-Bell.

Died at Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, 10 March 1787.

Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge 1960-1968.

He was born on 9 May 1901 at Holmes, Rotherham, Yorkshire and later won an open scholarship from his school at Long Eaton and came to Clare College in 1919 where he read Botany, Geology and Chemistry for the first part of the Natural Science Tripos. He began work on the vegetation of Wicken Fen which saw the start of his contributions on the history of the British Flora. In 1925 he was elected Fellow of Clare and became well established in the Department of Botany. He became Secretary of the British Ecological Society in 1932 and later edited The New Phytologist. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945 in recognition of his achievements in ecology and also helped to establish the University Subdepartment of Quaternary Research which flourished under his directorship. During this time new fields of investigation were established such as radiocarbon dating. He also wrote his classic work at this time, The History of The British Flora. Eventually he was appointed Professor of Botany in 1960, a year after he had been Acting Master at Clare (1958-1959).

He was knighted ten years later in 1970 and two years afterwards he retired in 1968.

See obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1984-5, pp. 76-79; Obituary by Prof. Richard West in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 34, 1988.

Master of Clare College, 1762-1781

Born on 28 August 1705 in Cambridge. Son of a French refugee, a barber by trade.
School – Merchant Taylors, London.

Admitted sizar at Clare on 23 June 1721.
B.A. 1724/5
M.A. 1728
D.D. 1761
Made an Exeter Fellow in 1727, Diggons Fellow in 1728 and Clare Fellow, 1730-1743
Senior proctor, 1745-6
Vice-Chancellor, 1762-3

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 24 September 1727; priest, 24 May, 1730.
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1742-47.
Rector of Fornham All Saints', Suffolk , 1747.
Rector of Westley, Suffolk, 1749 .
Preb. of Peterborough, 1761-81.
Preb. of St Paul's, London, 1770-81 .
Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, 1774-81 .

Died 25 October 1781.

Born in Ealing in 1930
Attended Marlborough School and was admitted to Clare College on 23 January 1950 where he read land economy
He was also a member of the Footlights drama club and drew cartoons for the student newspaper Varsity

He was partner of Kemsley, Whiteley and Ferris, chartered surveyors
He was appointed Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (F.R.I.C.S.)
He was appointed Fellow, Chartered Auctioneers' and Estate Agents Insitute (F.A.I.)