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Matriculated at Clare, 1884

Admitted to Clare on 21 March 1884
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1884
Scholar; B.A. 1887; M.A. 1891
Assistant Master at Wakefield Grammar School, 1887; at the London International College [Isleworth College]; at Christ College, Brecon, 1888; at Eastbourne College (and House Master), 1895-1930

Well known as a golfer

Died on 11 December 1933 aged 68

Matriculated at Clare in 1965. Noted art historian - an authority on John Constable - Ron Parkinson was Assistant Curator at the V&A for many years.

Fellow, 1923-34, Honorary Fellow 1956-74. Antarctic explorer (with Shackleton and Scott). First Secretary General of the Faculties (Cambridge).

Born in Tewkesbury, the son of Joseph Edward Priestley, headmaster of Tewkesbury grammar school.
Educated at his father's school and taught there for a year before reading geology at University College, Bristol (1905–07).

He had completed his second year of studies when he enlisted as a geologist for Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition (1907–09) to Antarctica. He was part of the advance team that laid the food and fuel depots for Shackleton's nearly successful attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1909. He returned to the Antarctic as a member of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), after being recruited by Scott when the Terra Nova arrived in Sydney.

Served in the British Army during World War I and was awarded the Military Cross in March 1919.

His research and thesis on glaciers in the Antarctic earned him a BA (Research) at Cambridge in 1920.

In 1920 he co-founded, with fellow Terra Nova expedition member Frank Debenham, the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge

In 1922 he was elected a Fellow of Clare College.

In 1924 he joined the university's administrative staff, becoming concurrently assistant registrar, secretary to the board of research studies and secretary-general of the faculties.

From the 1930s until his retirement, he held a series of academic and government administrative posts in Australia and England.
1935-1938 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
1938-1952 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
1947 - Knighted for Services to Education
During this period he developed an acquaintance with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, providing him with rooms for discussions and lectures.

After retirement in 1952, he served as Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service (1953-1955), as deputy Director of the former Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (later called the British Antarctic Survey) (1955-1958), and as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1956).

He revisited Antarctica in 1956 and 1959 and in the latter year was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for whom he was president from 1961 to 1963.

Read mathematics at Clare College and proceeded to a PhD in theoretical and experimental nuclear physics

1961 - elected to a Research Fellowship at the College
1963 - elected to a lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory

He served as Clare's Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutor for twenty years

Emeritus Fellow in Physics

Admitted to Clare College on 7 October 1876
Matriculated Michaelmas 1876
B.A. 1880; M.A. and LL.M. 1883; LL.D. 1889

Admitted solicitor, March 1884 and practised in Birmingham, 1890-1931

Died 27 March 1931, aged 73, at Edgbaston and is buried at Lodge Hill.

Brother of William Showell Rogers (admitted to Clare in 1873).

Born in Lavenham, Suffolk, in 1575. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1589 before migrating to Trinity and then gaining his BA in 1593-4.

He was later a Fellow of Clare 1598-1620.
He was also a Taxor, 1604 and was incorporated at Oxford in 1605.
He vacated his Fellowship when he succeeded to some property but he died soon after in 1622.
He is remembered as the author of the famous Cambridge play, which so delighted James I called Ignoramus. It was written in Latin in 1614-1615 by Ruggle and was modelled on an Italian Comedy by Giovanni Battista della Porta to caricature the pedantry of the legal profession. It was played before King James on 8 March 1615 on the occasion of his visit to the University and he then made a special journey to Cambridge on 13 May to see the play again.

Afterwards Ruggle was tutor at Babraham, Cambridgeshire, to the two sons of Toby Palavicino. The latter was Executor to Ruggle and paid his bequest of £100 to the College on 3 March 1624-5. Ruggle bequeathed his valuable collection of French, Spanish and Italian books to the College. [Details from Harrison index and Book of Clare, pp. 76, 143-4].

Matriculated at Clare, 1880. He read Classics and gained a first class degree in 1883. He was also a member of the Boat Club and later became Captain. He became Professor of Literature in Newcastle and also lectured in Cambridge. He then lectured in the US in 1892. He later joined the staff of Punch, becoming editor between 1906-1934. He was knighted in 1914 and later made a Baronet in 1933 in recognition of his public services. He died in 1936.

Born in 1930 in Dover and attended Epsom School.

Admitted to Clare College om 11 October 1948 to study Natural Sciences.

Master of Clare College, 1959-1975.

Born on 24 August 1904 at 12 Fairlop Road, north Leyton, London, the eldest of three sons of Herbert Charles Ashby, commercial clerk (and later accountant), and his wife, Helëna Maria, née Chater.
Educated at the City of London School and then Imperial College, London graduating in 1926 with a BSc, gaining first-class honours in botany and geology, and was awarded the Forbes medal. He was appointed a demonstrator at Imperial College which enabled him to begin his research on plant growth and development.

1929 - awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship and worked at the University of Chicago and the Desert Research Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation. He returned to Imperial College in 1931 and was appointed as a lecturer.

26 December 1931 - he married (Elizabeth) Helen Margaret Farries, a graduate of Glasgow University who had won a scholarship to Imperial College to work for a PhD on fungal physiology. They had two sons: Michael Farries (b. 1935) and Peter Harries Chater (b. 1937).

1935 - moved to the University of Bristol as a reader in botany, where his teaching was mainly in genetics.
1938 - appointed to the professorship of botany in the University of Sydney.

During the Second World War he worked for the Australian Government and was the scientific counsellor and chargé d'affaires at the Australian legation in Moscow (1944-1946).

1946-1949 - Harrison Professor of Botany in the University of Manchester.

1950-1959 - President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast.

Spring 1958 - Pre-elected Master of Clare College, the first Master from outside Cambridge. Such an election would have been forbidden by the College Statutes had he not first been elected to a Fellowship so that he could obtain a Cambridge degree by incorporation. After a year completing their duties in Belfast the Ashbys took up residence in the Master's lodge at Clare in April 1959.

The lodge became a home for chamber music by dons and students, including performances by a string quartet in which Ashby played the viola. His fostering of music in the College extended to the Chapel Choir which, with the inclusion of women students, contributed to Clare's growing reputation for distinction in music.

During his Mastership Clare Hall was founded. He also set up a study group which he chaired to consider the admittance of women. In May 1970 the Governing Body repealed the statute that prevented the admission of women. The following year the first two women Fellows were admitted and in 1972 Clare admitted thirty women undergraduates; by the 1990s about half of the Clare undergraduates were women.

1954-1966 - he spent ten periods in Africa and visited more than a dozen countries, serving on commissions, visiting groups, and governing bodies, and acting as consultant and lecturer
1959-1961 - Chairman of a commission sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation to advise on the development of universities in Nigeria
1959-1967 - member of the University Grants Committee
1960-1969 - chairman of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
1963 - President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
1963 - Fellow of the Royal Society
1971-1973 - first Chairman of the standing Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
1974 - chaired a working to examine the possible hazards for the environment from genetically engineered organisms

1956 - Knighted
1973 - Life Peer
1975 - retired
22 October 1992 – he died in Cambridge.