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Matriculated at Clare, 1944.
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1775 - 4 January 1856
Master of Clare College, 1815-1856
Born in February 1775 at Sutton Coldfield. The son of William, Master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 30 April 1793
B.A. (18th Wrangler; aegrotat) 1797
M.A. 1800
B.D. 1808
D.D. 1816
Elected to a Fellowship in 1799
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough in 1800 and as Priest in 1801
Presented to the College living at Litlington in 1812
May 1815 promoted to the combined livings of Fornham All Saints and Westley. He resigned from these livings upon his election as Master in July 1815
Vice-Chancellor, 1817-18 and 1832-3
President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1843-44
He married Anne, the daughter of the Rev. T.V. Gould, his predecessor in the living at Westley
Died 4 January 1856
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1859-1931
John Reynolds Wardale was admitted to Clare in 1878, became a Fellow in 1882, Junior Tutor in 1894, sole Tutor in 1915, remained as Lecturer until 1923.
Compiled the "Notes" from his research into the College records for "Clare College" (1899) as part of the series of University of Cambridge College histories, for "Clare College Letters and Documents" as well as for general interest.
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23 April 1889 - 1969
Born on 23 April 1889 the son of the Revd J.B. Wane of Castle Ashby Rectory, Northamptonshire
Was admitted to Clare in 1907
Later lived at St Colomba's Rectory, Nairn, Scotland in the 1930s
He gave a fine collection of bird books to the College about 15 years before his death in 1969 and these were deposited in the University Library in 1971. After his death the College received a bequest of silver.
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Pam Wadham worked in the Tutorial Office from 1971-1991.
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1634 - May 1772
Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 18 January 1652/3
Matriculated in 1653
B.A. 1656/7
M.A. 1660
D.D. 1679 (Lit. Reg.)
Fellow until 1722
Senior Proctor, 1676-77
Obtained a mandate for the Mastership of Clare College 1678 but too late and Samuel Blythe was elected master.
Ordained Deacon (Lincoln), 10 March 1660
Priest, Peterborough, 22 September 1667
Rector of Blo Norton, Norfolk, 1660-1722
“In 1674 he preached before the King at Newmarket in a Long Periwig and Holland Sleeves, then the Dress of Gentlemen; which so scandalised even Charles II, that He ordered the Duke of Monmouth, then Chancellor of the University, to put the Statutes in execution relating to the Decency of Apparel” [Wardale, J.R. College Histories: Clare College]
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1683
Died May 1722