Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge 1960-1968.
Born on 9 May 1901 at Holmes, Rotherham, Yorkshire and later won an open scholarship from his school at Long Eaton and came to Clare College in 1919 where he read Botany, Geology and Chemistry for the first part of the Natural Science Tripos.
He began work on the vegetation of Wicken Fen which saw the start of his contributions on the history of the British Flora.
In 1925 he was elected Fellow of Clare and became well established in the Department of Botany.
He became Secretary of the British Ecological Society in 1932 and later edited The New Phytologist.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945 in recognition of his achievements in ecology and also helped to establish the University Subdepartment of Quaternary Research which flourished under his directorship. During this time new fields of investigation were established such as radiocarbon dating.
He was appointed Professor of Botany in 1960, a year after he had been Acting Master at Clare (1958-1959).
He was knighted ten years later in 1970 and two years afterwards he retired in 1968.
See obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1984-5, pp. 76-79; Obituary by Prof. Richard West in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 34, 1988.
Master of Clare College, 1762-1781
Born on 28 August 1705 in Cambridge. Son of a French refugee, a barber by trade.
School – Merchant Taylors, London.
Admitted sizar at Clare on 23 June 1721.
B.A. 1724/5
M.A. 1728
D.D. 1761
Made an Exeter Fellow in 1727, Diggons Fellow in 1728 and Clare Fellow, 1730-1743
Senior proctor, 1745-6
Vice-Chancellor, 1762-3
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 24 September 1727; priest, 24 May, 1730.
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1742-47.
Rector of Fornham All Saints', Suffolk , 1747.
Rector of Westley, Suffolk, 1749 .
Preb. of Peterborough, 1761-81.
Preb. of St Paul's, London, 1770-81 .
Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, 1774-81 .
Died 25 October 1781.
Fellow of Clare, Director of the University Botanic Garden, 1951-1973.
Born in Ealing in 1930
Attended Marlborough School and was admitted to Clare College on 23 January 1950 where he read land economy
He was also a member of the Footlights drama club and drew cartoons for the student newspaper Varsity
He was partner of Kemsley, Whiteley and Ferris, chartered surveyors
He was appointed Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (F.R.I.C.S.)
He was appointed Fellow, Chartered Auctioneers' and Estate Agents Insitute (F.A.I.)
Charles Edward Garrad (1876-1958) Clare 1894, Fellow 1900-1906 and William Rolfe Garrad (1881-1951) Clare 1903
Both brothers were missionaries in Mandalay
Born on 1 September 1859, the son of Stephen T. Gardiner
School - Bedford
Studied at Würzburg University
Admitted to Clare College on 25 January 1878
Matriculated Michaelmas 1878
Natural Sciences Tripos 1st Class, 1881
B.A. 1882; M.A. 1885; Sc.D. 1905
Fellow, 1885-1913
Bursar, 1895
Honorary Fellow, 1915
Demonstrator in Botany, 1884-8
University Lecturer in Botany, 1888-9
c. 1889, with Prof. M.C. Potter, re-instituted the Cambridge University Botanical Museum founded by Prof. Henslow
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1890
Royal Society's Medal, 1898
Author of many papers dealing with the histological and physiological aspects of botany
Died on 31 August 1941
Born in Irchester, Northants
Matriculated in 1671 and admitted as a sizar at Clare College in 1671
B.A. 1674/5, M.A. 1678
Ordained deacon Peterborough 1676, made a Fellow 1678
Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies
Most of Simon Franklin’s research has been concerned with the history and culture of early Russia and of Russia in the Early Modern period. In particular, he has focussed on aspects of the cultural significances of the written word across a broad spectrum of genres and forms and technologies: handwritten and printed, graffiti, inscribed objects, ephemera.
Apart from teaching and research, he has served in numerous university and college roles, including periods as Head of the School of Arts and Humanities, as Senior Tutor of Clare College, and as a Trustee of the European University in St Petersburg, and of the Pushkin House Trust in London. In 2007 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and he is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Fellow of Clare, 1982; Professor of French and neo-Latin literature, 2004; Faculty chair of Modern & Medieval Languages; British Academy Fellow, 2009.