Rhoda Bass (b. 27th July 1909) took over as Lodging House Keeper of Braeside in 1958 until 1983 but continued to live there until 1990 when her husband Arthur Bass died. Arthur Bass had worked in the SCR/Pantry for 8yrs (1975 -83). Many of her "Old Boys" as she called them kept in touch over the years. Her daughter Billie (Hostelkeeper at the colony 1978, Senior Housekeeper, 1986 - 2001) and her husband Peter Allinson (Clare Fellow's Butler from 1982 and under Butler from 1976) have also worked for Clare.
(1905 -1993) matriculated at Clare, 1925, came from Harrow School and read Natural Sciences. An enthusiastic athlete he was Secretary and then President of College Athletics. Club The half mile was his speciality.
Matriculated at Clare, 1919.
The schoolboys choir was set up to give schoolboys at local schools the opportunity to sing in a choir.
Baron Eric Ashby, 1904-1992, Master of Clare College 1958-1975; distinguished plant scientist (went to Imperial College, London). Toby Jackman was a graduate at Clare c. 1961; later Librarian of the University of British Columbia, and later still a life member of Clare Hall.
Matriculated Clare, 1932.
Matriculated Clare, 1822. Clare Fellow, 1829 - 1836
William Charles Denis Browne (1888-1915), matriculated at Clare in 1907. He was admitted on a Classics scholarship but spent most of his time at College pursuing musical interests and rowing. Took a teaching position at Repton after Clare but was there less than a year and then took a job as organist at Guy's hopsital in London. He then taught music at Morley College at the same time as working at Guy's hospital and was also a music critic for the Times and New Statesman. He was killed in action at Gallipoli during the First World War.
William Butler matriculated as sizar from Peterhouse, Lent 1557/8, BA 1560/1, MA 1564, Fellow 1561. He was elected a fellow of Clare in 1572. Despite no formal qualification in medicine, he gained a significant reputation within the medical community; he is known to have acted as physician to James I. Widely considered an eccentric, his restorative techniques were uniquely imaginative. He is said to have once revived a man suffering from an opium overdose by putting him inside the chest cavity of a recently-slaughtered cow, and cured another patient of a fever by having him thrown off a balcony into the Thames. He died 29th January 1617/8 and is buried at Great St Marys, Cambridge.
Extract from Lempriere's Universal Biography , 1808: 'Butler, William, a physician, of Ipswich, educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, He practised at Cambridge without a degree, but the oddity of his manners, and the bold method with which he treated his patients often successfully rendered him a favourite in his profession. Some anecdotes of him are recorded, which exhibit him more as a capricious boy or a madman than a man of sound sense. He died 1618 aged 82. He left no writings behind him'.
Matriculated at Clare, 1949.