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Born in 1907 in Bordon Camp, Bordon, Hampshire, the first son of The Very Reverend Harry Blackburne

Educated at Marlborough College
Admitted to Clare College on 15 January 1926 where he studied Modern Languages and Geography

1930 - entered the colonial service and served in Nigeria, Palestine and the Gambia
1943-1947 - served in the West Indies
1947-1950 - Director of colonial information services in London

1950 - returned to the West Indies
1950-1956 - Governor of the Leeward Islands
1957-1962 - Governor of Jamaica. When Jamaica received its independence in August 1962, Blackburne was appointed as the Governor-General; he served in that position for three months till 30 November 1962 when his Jamaican replacement, Clifford Campbell, took office.

He died on 4 November 1980 in Douglas, Isle of Man

Fellow of Clare College 1960-1998
University Lecturer in Geology 1955-1982

Born on 1 March 1716 in Kingston, Nottinghamshire
Son of John Berridge, farmer
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College, 12 June 1735
B.A. 1738/9
M.A. 1742
Fellow 1740-55
Taxor 1746
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 10 March 1744/45
Ordained priest 9 June 1745
Curate of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, 1750-55
Vicar of Everton, Bedfordshire, and Tetworth, Huntingdonshire, 1755-93
Well-known early 'Evangelical' preacher
Author of The Christian World Unmasked and other works
Died 22 June 1793

Richard Bennett matriculated in 1920 and graduated from Clare in 1924. He studied Natural Sciences.
He was the nephew of the well-known author Arnold Bennett and he later donated the c.600 letters that he received from his uncle to the UL. Richard Bennett was also a member of the 'Boot club', a college group founded through a mutual interest in 'the Boot' pub in Dullingham (see Volume 1). After leaving the College he held posts at Lever Brothers and later ICI.

Born on 27 June 1832
Son of Henry of Needham Market, Suffolk
School – Ipswich

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 11 June 1851
Matriculated Michaelmas 1851
B.A. 1855; M.A. 1858
Fellow, 1855
Dean
Proctor, 1862

Ordained deacon (Ely) 1856; priest (London) 1857; Curate of Christ Church, St Pancras, London, 1856-9. Vicar of Litlington, Cambs., 1866-7. Rector of Rotherhithe with St Paul's, Globe Street, London, 1867-1907
Lady Margaret Preacher, 1869
Rural Dean of Southwark, 1875-87
Hon. Canon of Rochester, 1893-1905
Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral, 1905-24

Lived latterly at 4, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge

Author of History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe [There is a copy of this in the Archive search room 942.659 BEC inscribed by the author 'Presented to Clare College Library by Canon Beck June 1907')

Died on 17 October 1924 in Cambridge

Born in 1885 he was the son of Rear-Admiral Henry Compton Baynes.
He was educated at Clifton College and entered Clare in 1904. He obtained a first-class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1908, and in the same year was placed sixth in the Home and Indian Civil Service examination.
He was appointed to the Colonial Office, was secretary to the Malta Royal Commission and to the West African Currency Board.
In 1915 he was given permission to join the Army and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery.
In 1917 he was awarded the M.C. “continuous and conspicuous gallant service as forward observation officer”. He was killed in action in Flanders on 14 October 1918 aged 32 and buried in Hooge Crater Cemetary, Ypres.
Following his death, his family founded a Studentship at Clare in his name to support postgraduate research in the physical sciences.

Master of Clare College, 1557-1560