Born in Liverpool, and attended Alsop High School in Walton
Admitted to Clare where he took the Mechanical Science Tripos, and was awarded a first class honours degree with distinction in aeronautics, heat engines, applied mathematics and theory of structure.
Born on 15 November 1907 in Ayr, Scotland son of James Vavasour Hammond, an Episcopalian rector.
Studied classics at Fettes College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
In 1929 he began his personal exploration of the ancient sites in Epirus. He spent vacations exploring Greece on foot. He spent some time in southern Albania where he learnt the Albanian language. These abilities led him to be recruited by the Special Operations Executive during World War II in 1940. His activities included many dangerous sabotage missions in Greece (especially on the Greek island of Crete). As an officer, in 1944 he was in command of the Allied military mission to the Greek resistance in Thessaly and Macedonia. He published a memoir of his war service entitled Venture into Greece in 1983; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Greek Order of the Phoenix.
After the war he became senior tutor at Clare College
1954 - became headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol
1962 - appointed Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at Bristol University (which he held until his retirement in 1973)
1968 - elected a Fellow of the British Academy
Born in 1852 the son of H.M. Harris of Plymouth
School – Plymouth Grammar
Admitted to Clare College on 9 June 1870 as a pensioner
BA 3rd Wrangler 1874
MA 1877
Fellow 1875-88 and 1892-1904
Librarian from 1898-1902
Hon. Fellow 1909-41
Fellow British Academy 1927
Hon. LittD Dublin
Hon. LLD Haverford, USA
Hon. D.Theol. Leyden, Holland
Hon. LLD Birmingham
Hon. DD Glasgow
Professor of New Testament Greek: Sch: Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA , 1882-86
Returned to Cambridge, 1893
University Lecturer in Palaeography, 1893-1903
Travelled extensively in the East in search of manuscripts and, as a result of his visits to Mount Sinai
Had two narrow escapes from drowning, his ship being torpedoed on both occasions, in the War of 1914-18
Moved to Manchester, 1918
Curator of Eastern, John Rylands Library 1918-25
Professor of Biblical Languages: Sch: Haverford College USA , 1886-92
Professor of Theology: at Sch: University of Leyden Leyden, Holland, 1903-04
Director of studies: Friends' Settlement for Social and Religious Study Woodbrooke, near Birmingham, 1903-18
Notice to marry, July 1880, at the Friends Meeting House in Plymouth, Helen Balkwill
Died in Selly Oak, Birmingham, on 1 March 1941
J Rendel Harris was one of the most prolific and influential New Testament scholars of his time and was responsible for bringing to light hitherto lost early Christian writings and gathered major collections of Syriac manuscripts and Greek papyri, especially the Syriac Bible. It was Dr Harris who provided Dr Agnes Smith Lewis and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson (twin sisters in Cambridge with interest in ancient Syriac writings) with the contacts in Egypt that enabled them to visit the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mt. Sinai. This collaboration led to the discovery of the Sinaitic Palimpsest.
Admitted to Clare in October 1903 to read mathematics (First class).
Elected into a Fellowship in 1907 and was awarded the Smith's prize in 1908.
1910 married Ethel Marienne Harvey piper. They had two sons who also attended Clare as did their grandson.
WWI - served as Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery and as Assistant Proof and Experimental Officer at Woolwich Arsenal. His services were recognised with the award of an MBE.
After lecturing in maths at Liverpool and then back in Cambridge he was commissioned as a Scientific Officer at Woolwich Arsenal in 1914. From 1919-1924 he continued scientific work in Cambridge and then changed direction to deal with administration of Clare College. He became Bursar, Financial Tutor and Steward and also dealt with the College Archives. This was the period when the College was run mainly by three men, Sir Henry Thirkill, Dr. W. Telfer and William Harrison who were known as the "Holy Trinity". Harrison retired in 1949 but continued his research in the Archives publishing books on the history of the College.
1929 - 1949 served as Bursar.
Obituary: The Clare Association Annual 1969, pp. 56-57.
Dr David Hartley is a chartered engineer in computing and information technology, who has combined many years as a senior manager in the
university environment with a wide range of consulting and advisory positions for government, education, research and industry. He worked in the Computer Laboratory on the early pioneering computers making contributions in programming languages, operating systems and other services. He was Director of the University Computing Service from 1970 to 1994, and was responsible for the University’s broadband facility linking all Colleges and Departments throughout Cambridge.
From 1994 to 1997 he was Chief Executive of the company developing the JANET national network, and from 1997 to 2002 was Executive Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. He was then Steward of Clare College for three years, and worked with Toby Wilkinson to reform alumni relations into the force that it is today. He was President of the British Computer Society in millennium year 1999-2000.
Among external roles, he has advised many bodies including government departments. In the 1980’s he was a member of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, and the Prime Minister’s Information Technology Advisory Panel, also spending a sabbatical year at the Department of Industry.
MA, Mathematics, 1959
Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing, 1959
PhD, Computer Science, 1963
FBCS, CEng, CITP
Medal of Merits, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland, 1984
Ecucated at Clifton College 1930-35, and admitted to Clare in 1935. Was in the 1st May Boat in 1938.
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.
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..