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Born at Kirkthorpe, Yorkshire, and was baptised on 27 December 1602 in the parish church at Wakefield. He was the son of Francis Oley, clergyman, and his wife, Mary Watterhouse.

In 1607 Oley entered Wakefield grammar school.
In 1617 he was admitted to Clare College as a Cave Scholar.
Graduated BA in 1621.
Having been elected a probationer fellow of the foundation of Lady Clare at the college on 28 November 1623, he proceeded MA in 1625 and was elected a senior fellow in 1627.

In 1633 he was appointed to the college living of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, which he held for the rest of his life, but due to his duties as a Fellow he continued to live in Cambridge for many years.

In 1634–5 he served as taxor (price regulator), for the university, and in 1635–6 as proctor.
He started the rebuilding of Clare College on 19 May 1638, although work was not finished until 1715.

Oley was a Royalist and on 8 April 1644 he was ejected from his Fellowship by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester on the grounds of non-residence in Cambridge and failure to appear before the commission of visitors. All his personal and landed property was confiscated and he was forced to leave Great Gransden.

During the late 1640s he led a wandering and impoverished life.
In 1643 and 1646 he was in Oxford.
During the sieges of Pontefract in 1644 and 1645 he preached to the Royalist garrison defending the castle.
By 1647 he had been sequestered from the impropriate rectory of Warmfield, Yorkshire, which his father had resigned in 1643.
Having helped Sir Marmaduke Langdale to escape in 1648 from prison and a death sentence, the following year Oley had to compound for delinquency in assisting the forces against parliament, and was fined £30. A further £50 was added in 1652, in lieu of which he was required to settle £5 a year on the minister of Warmfield.

In 1659 Oley returned to Great Gransden and on 9 July 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship at Clare College by order of the same Earl of Manchester.

On 3 August 1660 he was presented to the third prebendal stall of Worcester Cathedral.

In 1663 he left his Fellowship.

In 1664 he was the leading benefactor of the brick school house at Gransden, which he endowed with £20 a year. He built brick houses for six poor people on his own freehold land, leasing them for one thousand years to the churchwardens for the time being at a peppercorn rent, and he erected a vicarage.

He had given a pulpit to Gransden church in the first months of his incumbency in 1633 and in 1681 he provided wainscot seats for the chancel.

On 8 November 1679 he was nominated to the archdeaconry of Ely, but the following year he resigned this preferment because of doubts of his ability to discharge its duties. However, he retained the stall at Worcester until his death.

Oley died at Great Gransden on 20 February 1686, and in accordance with his will was buried there on the night of 22 February.

In his will he left 100 marks (£67) to Clare College for building a library, and £10 to the descendants of John Westley, the builder of the College.

A charity was set up in his name, with assets in Warmfield, Kirkthorpe, and Great Gransden, overseen by the fellows of Clare College and still operating with limited resources in the late twentieth century.

William Clifford Jones was from the Rhondda Valley and attended LLandovery College before coming to Clare in 1933 "to read law and play rugby". He was awarded three Blues and thirteen Caps for Wales whom he captained in 1938.

After leaving Clare he qualified as a solicitor.
During the Second World War he served as a major with the Control Commission.
He later gave up being a lawyer and joined his father in the family business.

He came back to Welsh rugby in 1957 as a selector, was chairman of the committee for a period, and served until 1978.
He played a significant part in the establishment of the national coaching scheme and the squad training system which underpinned the success of the Welsh team in the late 1960s and the 70s.
In 1979 he was awarded the OBE.1980-81 was President of the Welsh Rugby Union.

Obituary: The Clare Association Annual, 1990-91, pg. 72

Malcolm Mitchinson read Medicine at Queen's College, Cambridge and took his BChir in 1960 and MD in 1969. He was elected as a Fellow at Clare College in 1966 and taught here until 1990. He was the Director of Studies in Pathology for 20 years. He died in October 2015.

Matriculated at Clare, 1944.

Matriculated at Clare, 1950

Master of Clare College, 1856-1915

Educated at Leeds Grammar School.
Matriculated at Clare College in 1838 , gaining a scholarship. He graduated B.A. (3rd Class, Classics) in 1842.
M.A. 1845, B.D. 1853, D.D. 1859.

He became Fellow of Clare in 1842; and was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1844. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1862–1863, 1868–1870, and 1876–1878.

Master of Clare, 1856-1915 (the longest Mastership in the College's history), during which he presided over the change from 'Clare Hall' to 'Clare College'. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

He is buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge alongside his wife. The monument was restored in November 2016 following a donation from the College.

Master of Clare College, 1678-1713

Born in Doncaster, Samuel Blyth was first admitted to Clare College as a sizar undergraduate in 1652.
He gained his BA in 1655 and was made a Fellow in 1658, later serving as College Master 1678-1713.
He was a considerable benefactor to the College.

Born in Goginan, Cardiganshire and educated at Lewis School Pengam and the University of Wales, Aberystwth.
Matriculated at Clare in 1897 to study Natural Sciences.
1899 BA and 1903 MA.

1 August 1912 married Muriel Gwendolen Edwards, a colleague and keen climber. She was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the University of Wales.

1901 - demonstrator to the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Sir James Dewar.
1902 became a Fellow of Clare College and then a lecturer.

1907 - became a keen climber after receiving some tuition in Snowdonia.
1909 - member of the Alpine Club.

Jones and his wife were killed in an accident on their honeymoon in Switzerland, while climbing the Aiguille Rouge de Peuterey 2941m a subpeak of Aiguille Noire de Peuterey on 15 August 1912 in Italy. Their guide, Julius Truffer, slipped and fell on Jones, and all three dropped nearly 1,000 feet to the Fresnay Glacier.

Master of Clare College, 1959-1975.

Born on 24 August 1904 at 12 Fairlop Road, north Leyton, London, the eldest of three sons of Herbert Charles Ashby, commercial clerk (and later accountant), and his wife, Helëna Maria, née Chater.
Educated at the City of London School and then Imperial College, London graduating in 1926 with a BSc, gaining first-class honours in botany and geology, and was awarded the Forbes medal. He was appointed a demonstrator at Imperial College which enabled him to begin his research on plant growth and development.

1929 - awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship and worked at the University of Chicago and the Desert Research Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation. He returned to Imperial College in 1931 and was appointed as a lecturer.

26 December 1931 - he married (Elizabeth) Helen Margaret Farries, a graduate of Glasgow University who had won a scholarship to Imperial College to work for a PhD on fungal physiology. They had two sons: Michael Farries (b. 1935) and Peter Harries Chater (b. 1937).

1935 - moved to the University of Bristol as a reader in botany, where his teaching was mainly in genetics.
1938 - appointed to the professorship of botany in the University of Sydney.

During the Second World War he worked for the Australian Government and was the scientific counsellor and chargé d'affaires at the Australian legation in Moscow (1944-1946).

1946-1949 - Harrison Professor of Botany in the University of Manchester.

1950-1959 - President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast.

Spring 1958 - Pre-elected Master of Clare College, the first Master from outside Cambridge. Such an election would have been forbidden by the College Statutes had he not first been elected to a Fellowship so that he could obtain a Cambridge degree by incorporation. After a year completing their duties in Belfast the Ashbys took up residence in the Master's lodge at Clare in April 1959.

The lodge became a home for chamber music by dons and students, including performances by a string quartet in which Ashby played the viola. His fostering of music in the College extended to the Chapel Choir which, with the inclusion of women students, contributed to Clare's growing reputation for distinction in music.

During his Mastership Clare Hall was founded. He also set up a study group which he chaired to consider the admittance of women. In May 1970 the Governing Body repealed the statute that prevented the admission of women. The following year the first two women Fellows were admitted and in 1972 Clare admitted thirty women undergraduates; by the 1990s about half of the Clare undergraduates were women.

1954-1966 - he spent ten periods in Africa and visited more than a dozen countries, serving on commissions, visiting groups, and governing bodies, and acting as consultant and lecturer
1959-1961 - Chairman of a commission sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation to advise on the development of universities in Nigeria
1959-1967 - member of the University Grants Committee
1960-1969 - chairman of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
1963 - President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
1963 - Fellow of the Royal Society
1971-1973 - first Chairman of the standing Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
1974 - chaired a working to examine the possible hazards for the environment from genetically engineered organisms

1956 - Knighted
1973 - Life Peer
1975 - retired
22 October 1992 – he died in Cambridge.