Robert Grumbold was the Master mason in charge of designing and building the North (hall) range of Old Court. He was related to Thomas Grumbold who was the Master mason who designed and built Clare bridge and who is mentioned in the College building accounts CCAD/7/1/1/1. There is a memorial plaque to Robert Grumbold in the graveyard of St. Boltoph's church.
Born on 11 April 1613/14 in Hoo, Kent
Son of Peter Gunning, vicar of Hoo, Kent
School - King’s Canterbury
Matriculated as a sizar from Clare College 1629
B.A. 1632/3, M.A. 1636, D.D. Corpus Christi College 1660, B.D. Oxford 1646
Made a Fellow of Corpus Christi College 1633 -1644 ejected
University preacher 1641
Lady Margaret Professor 1660-61
Master of Corpus Christi College by mandate 1661 (February–June)
Regius Professor of Divinity 1661-74
Master of St John’s College 1661-69
Chaplain to the King 1660
Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland, 1660-70
Rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northants, 1660–70
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1660-69
Bishop of Chichester, 1670-75
Bishop of Ely, 1675-84
Died 6 July 1684
Arbitrator, barrister and hereditary peer.
School - Charterhouse
Graduated from Clare College in 1961
MA 1968
Inns of Court School of Law
1954-1964 - served in the Royal Naval Reserve, seeing active service 1956-8 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant.
Has worked for over 40 years as an international arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes
Inherited the title Baron Hacking from his father in 1971.
Born 1729 in Waresley the son of John Hagar of Waresley
School - Bury St Edmunds
Admitted as a Pensioner to Clare College in 1747 and matriculated in 1747
B.A. 1750/1; M.A. 1754
Fellow 1752-64
Ordained priest (Peterborough) 1757
Probably Rector of Abington Pigotts, Cambs 1773
Rector of Hawnes (Beds)
Died 1780 and is buried in Hawnes
Born in 1889 in Leicester to Joseph Haines, a schoolmaster, and Lucy (nee Horsley).
Frank started his education at St Saviour’s School and in 1900 moved to The Wyggeston School where he studied until 1907.
He won an organ scholarship to Clare College where he was also a singer (baritone).
He obtained a B.A. Mus, Bac. (Cantab) and was made sub-organist of King’s College, Cambridge in 1912.
He became a Lieutenant in 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and was Killed in Action on 16.6.1917.
He is on the Arras Memorial (Bay 5), France and also the Syston Memorial as his parents were living at The Morlands, Syston at the time of his death.
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