Master of Clare College, 1939-1958
Matriculated at Clare College in 1905
Fellow 1910-1939
Master 1939-1958
Vice-Chancellor of the University 1945-1947
Knighthood 1951
Born in 1630 at Old Haugh End Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire. Son of Robert Tillotson, clothier of Halifax.
School – Colne, Lancashire
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 23 April 1647
Matriculated in 1647
B.A. 1650
M.A. 1654
D.D. 1666
Fellow 1651-61 deprived
Ordained c.1661
Chaplain to Sir Edmund Prideaux
Rector of Kedington, Suffolk , 1663-64
Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1663-91
Lecturer at St Laurence Jewry, London, 1664
Chaplain to the King, 1666-91
Prebend of Canterbury, 1670-72
Prebend of Chichester, 1670
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1671
Dean of Canterbury, 1672-89
Canon of St Paul's, London, 1675-91 ; Dean 1689
P.C. 1691
Clerk of the Closet, 1689-91
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1691-94
Died on 22 November 1694
Master of Clare College, 1781-1815
Born on 26 March 1743 at Little Stukeley, the third son of Revd James Torkington, Rector of King's Ripton and Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire.
Admitted pensioner at Clare College on 11 July 1761
Matriculated Michaelmas 1761
B.A. 1766; M.A. 1769; B.D. 1778; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1785.
Fellow, 1768; Master, 1781-1815.
Vice-Chancellor, 1783-4.
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 25 May 1766; priest (Peterborough) 31 March 1771
Rector of Teigh, Rutland, 1787
Vicar of Stapleford, Leicestershire
Rector of Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire until 1815
Died at Little Stukeley on 11 July 1815
Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 18 January 1652/3
Matriculated in 1653
B.A. 1656/7
M.A. 1660
D.D. 1679 (Lit. Reg.)
Fellow until 1722
Senior Proctor, 1676-77
Obtained a mandate for the Mastership of Clare College 1678 but too late and Samuel Blythe was elected master.
Ordained Deacon (Lincoln), 10 March 1660
Priest, Peterborough, 22 September 1667
Rector of Blo Norton, Norfolk, 1660-1722
“In 1674 he preached before the King at Newmarket in a Long Periwig and Holland Sleeves, then the Dress of Gentlemen; which so scandalised even Charles II, that He ordered the Duke of Monmouth, then Chancellor of the University, to put the Statutes in execution relating to the Decency of Apparel” [Wardale, J.R. College Histories: Clare College]
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1683
Died May 1722
Born on 23 April 1889 the son of the Revd J.B. Wane of Castle Ashby Rectory, Northamptonshire
Was admitted to Clare in 1907
Later lived at St Colomba's Rectory, Nairn, Scotland in the 1930s
He gave a fine collection of bird books to the College about 15 years before his death in 1969 and these were deposited in the University Library in 1971. After his death the College received a bequest of silver.
Master of Clare College, 1815-1856
Born in February 1775 at Sutton Coldfield. The son of William, Master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 30 April 1793
B.A. (18th Wrangler; aegrotat) 1797
M.A. 1800
B.D. 1808
D.D. 1816
Elected to a Fellowship in 1799
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough in 1800 and as Priest in 1801
Presented to the College living at Litlington in 1812
May 1815 promoted to the combined livings of Fornham All Saints and Westley. He resigned from these livings upon his election as Master in July 1815
Vice-Chancellor, 1817-18 and 1832-3
President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1843-44
He married Anne, the daughter of the Rev. T.V. Gould, his predecessor in the living at Westley
Died 4 January 1856