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At Clare between 1952-55

Born in Hamburg, Germany and educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago (New Zealand)

1954 - came to the University of Cambridge on a Shell Post-Graduate Scholarship to do his Ph.D. in physics (1956) as student of Sir Nevill Mott

1955 - Fellow of Clare College and

1976 - became a professor and took over as head of the theory group at the Cavendish Laboratory, a position that he held until his retirement in 1997

1974 - elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Master of Clare College 1993-2003.

Born in 1934 the son of Alexander Hepple (Leader of the South African Labour Party), and Josephine Zwarenstein.
Educated at Jeppe High School for Boys (1947–1951), the University of the Witwatersrand (B.A.,1954, LLB cum laude and Society of Advocates Prize for Best Law Graduate, 1957), and the University of Cambridge (LLB, 1966, LLD 1993).

1959-1962 - lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand
1962-1963 - Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar

Active as a student leader against racial segregation in the universities, worked as an adviser and assistant in the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and participated in the underground struggle against apartheid. He acted as legal adviser to Nelson Mandela in his trial for incitement in 1962, and was arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, with leaders of the African National Congress and Communist Party on 11 July 1963. He was held in 90-day detention without trial. He was discharged on 30 October 1963 and managed to escape to England in November 1963.

1964-1966 - graduate student at Clare College

1966-1968 - lectureship in law at the University of Nottingham

1969-1976 - Fellow of Clare College and university lecturer

1976 - Professor of Social and Labour Law at the University of Kent
1977-1982 (full time), 1974-1977 (part time), 1982–1993 - chairman of Industrial Tribunals

1982-1993 - Professor of English Law at University College London
1989-1993 - Dean and Head of the Faculty of Laws

In 1993 he was elected Master of Clare College and was appointed Professor of Law at the University (1995–2001)

2003 - elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

Awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Kent, and the Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy, and was Hon. Professor of Law in the University of Cape Town (1999–2006).

2004 - Knight Bachelor for services to legal studies

2013 - Awarded the first Labour Law Research Network Award for Distinguished Contributions to Labour Law

2014 - received the South African Order of Luthuli (Gold) for his exceptional contribution to the struggle for democracy and human rights

Barrister and Bencher of Gray's Inn
1996 - appointed Queen's Counsel (hon)
1994-1999 - served on the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on Legal Education and Conduct
2000-2002 - served on the Legal Services Panel
2007-2009 - Judge and senior vice-president of the UN Administrative Tribunal
2000-2003 - member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, chair from 2003 to 2007
2000-2002 - Chaired the council's Working Parties on Genetics and human behaviour and The forensic use of bioinformation (2006–2007)
1986-1990 - member of the Commission for Racial Equality
1989-2007 - trustee of the Canon Collins Educational Trust for South Africa
2001-2007 - Chair of the European Roma Rights Centre
2007-2014 - Chair of the Equal Rights Trust
2012 - elected Hon President of the Industrial Law Society
2014 - elected Hon President of the Equal Rights Trust

He died on 21 August 2015

Admitted to Clare in 1938. Distinguished military career; awarded an MC during Emergency in Malaya.

Matriculated at Clare, 1919.

Member of the Music Society Committee from 1920

1928-1967 - Secretary to the University Board of Extra Mural Studies
1963-1967 - Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
1947-49 and 1962-63 - Mayor of Cambridge

Senior member of Clare with dining rights in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Was involved with establishing the University Centre and University College (now Wolfson College).

Born on 11 October 1905 in Kensington the son of Charles Alexander Hill.
School - Harrow
Admitted to Clare on 15 July 1925 to read Natural Sciences.
He was secretary and then president of the Athletics Club with the half-mile being his speciality.

Dorothy Hill was an Australian geologist and paleontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.

She obtained her PhD from Cambridge University being a member of Newnham College.

Son of John, Rector of Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire. Born at Stoke Goldington, Buckinghamshire

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 6 July 1664
Exeter Scholar, 1667-1671
B.A. 1666/7
M.A. 1671

Incorporated at Oxford, 1673
Signed for deacon's orders (London) 22 September 1671; for priest's, 20 September 1673.
Rector of Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, 1680-1719

Buried there 27 February 1718/9, aged 70.