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Matriculated at Clare, 1883.

Born in Aberystwyth the son the the revd Joshua
Schools - Leamington College and Llandovery, Carms

Admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College on 29 January 1853
Matriculated at MIchaelmas 1853
B.A. 1857; M.A. 1867

1883 - Became a Fellow of Clare College
1889 - Fellow of the Royal Society

1860 - Appointed Secretary to the British Consul at Rome
1861 - Joined the Geological Survey of England, 1861
1873 - 1917 - Woodwardian Professor of Geology

President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1879-80 and 1889-90
1891 - Lyell medal of the Geological Society
1892 - President of the Philosophical Society

Died 9 June 1917

Matriculated at Clare College in 1944.

A Bursary has been set up at Clare in his memory as the Howard Bursary for scientists with preference for those reading Chemistry.

Born in 1865 and was the second son of William
School - Tonbridge

Admitted at Clare on 14 June 1884
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1884
B.A. 1887; M.B., B.C. and M.A. 1892; M.D. 1901
At St Bartholomew's Hospital, and at Berlin University
Travelling exhibition (Skinners' Company), 1888-93
M.R.C.P., 1896
Weber-Parker medal, 1903
Lecturer on diseases of the ear, nose and throat at the Medical Graduates' College, London, 1899
Secretary to the Otological Society of the United Kingdom, 1901-3
Ernest Hart scholarship from B.M.A., 1902
Secretary to the Laryngological Society of London, 1906-7
President of the Laryngological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1920
Lecturer in Laryngology at London University, 1921
President of the Section of Diseases of Ear, Nose and Throat, of the British Medical Association, 1924
Edited the Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology and Otology, 1899-1903, and Transactions of the Otological Society, 1903-7

Lived at 11 Wimpole Street, London and Mereworth, Maidstone, Kent, in 1944

Son of George and Emma Hornby.
Stated to have been sometime Fellow of Clare College and of Michaelhouse but there is no evidence found to support either of these claims.
Master of Peterhouse 1501 till death

B.A. admitted 1478-79
M.A. 1481

Vicar of East Deeping, Lincolnshire (vacant Jul 1481)
Rector of Normanton, Derbyshire admitted on Aug 1493 (vacant Jan 1495)
Dean of St Chad's, Shrewsbury, (Feb 1494 - probably till death)
Rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire (admitted Nov 1495; vacant Aug 1498)
Rector of Burton Bradstock, Dorset (1495 – till death)
Canon of Southwell and preby of Normanton (1495 – till death)
Rector of Leadenham, Lincolnshire (admitted 1498; re-admitted Jan 1500; vacant Mar 1501)
Rector of Coningsby, Lincolnshire (admitted Jul 1499; vacant Jul 1508)
Canon of Lincoln, and preby of Nassington (admitted by Apr 1501 - till death)
Master of Tattershall, Lincolnshire (1502; vacant Nov 1508; re-admitted 1512 till death)
Canon of Crediton, Devon and preby of Rugge (1504 - till death)
Vicar of Holsworthy, Devon admitted 6 May 1508
Rector of Orwell, Cambridgeshire presented by Michaelhouse (1508 - till death)
Canon and preby of Exeter (1509 - till death)
Dean of Wimborne, Dorset (1509 - till death)
Rector of Over, Cambridgeshire (1517 - till death)
Secretary, chancellor and dean of the chapel to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby and a supervisor of her will. Aided her in the foundation of St John's College
A commissioner de walliis et fossatibus for parts of Holland, Kesteven and Lindsey, appointed 1505 and 1507

Died on 12 Feb 1518

Buried in St Mary's the Less, Cambridge, in the chantry chapel which he built
Will dated 10 Dec 1517 and proved 16 Mar 1518
Bequeathed to the Master of Clare Hall 3 s. 4 d. and to every Fellow 20 d. and every discipulus 8 d., if present at his exequies in the college chapel.
Bequeathed £20 for maintenance of 100 poor scholars apt for study at Cambridge. Bequeathed £40 to Peterhouse to be placed in the Warkworth chest to provide for the next 10 years the sum of £4 each year to be expended by the seneschal.
40 s. on the purchase of cloth at Sturbridge Fair for making togae talares for 3 discipuli of the College, i.e. the bible clerk, the butler, and the janitor, and 40 s. for their lectures.
Bequeathed to Peterhouse for the Warkworth chapel an altar cloth of purple velvet and vestment to match.
Bequeathed to St John's College chapel his larger partiforium and a missal and to the College library all his other books remaining in Cambridge in his custody which lately belonged to mag. Edmund Hanson.
Bequeathed to Peterhouse a silver dish and ewer, the dish having a horn in enamel on the upper and lower sides.
Bequeathed to Clare Hall seven of his books containing the expositions of Hugh de Vienne, Super Vetus et Novum Testamenta; his book containing Augustine, De civitate Dei with commentary;
Bequeathed to Peterhouse volumes containing the text of the Bible with commentary of N. de Lyra and the common gloss, and four other volumes to be chosen from his library.
Author of (i) Historia Nominis Jesu, dedicated to the lady Margaret; (ii) Historia Visitationis Mariae
Owned Trinity College Library vi.15.42 (i) (Cassiodorus, Ecclesiastica, Cologne, 1478 ), ex inform. Dr J. M. Fletcher.

William Horbury is a Church of England priest and former Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at Cambridge University

He graduated BA from Oriel College, Oxford in 1964 and entered Westcott House, Cambridge for ordination training in the same year. He was ordained deacon in 1969 and priest in 1970, having become a Fellow of Clare College in 1968. He completed his Cambridge PhD thesis in 1971.

1972-78 - he served as Rector of Great and Little Gransden in the Diocese of Ely
1978 he became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and is now a Life Fellow
In 1984 he became a lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge
In 1998 he became Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies

1990-2014 - he served as honorary priest in charge of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge

He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1997

Matriculated at Clare, 1903. Changed his name from Schulhop.

Son of J.P. Hooper (Electrical Engineer) of London

Admitted to Clare on 14 July 1905

Born 1778 in Market Overton, Rutland

Admitted to Clare College as a pensioner on 30 January 1796, Matriculated 1797
B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804
Fellow 1803-12
Founder of the Hinman scholarship 1850

Ordained deacon 1801, priest Peterborough 1803
Curate Market Overton 1801-03
Curate Cottesmore, Rutland 1803–05

Died 15 August 1859 in Market Overton, Rutland

He was the son of Reverend Richard Edward Hull Kingston of Aglish, County Waterford, and Frances Sandiford. Most of his early life was spent in the family home at Horsehead in Passage West, County Cork. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at University College Cork. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with first-class honours in 1910, and almost immediately obtained a position in the Indian Medical Service. In 1913, he was seconded from military duty as naturalist to the Indo-Russian Pamir triangulation expedition. In 1914 he went on war service and saw action in East Africa, France, Mesopotamia, and the N.W. Frontier, gaining two mentions in dispatches and the Military Cross for gallantry in action. He wrote several books based on his travels and natural history observations. He was the medical officer on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition on which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine died.