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Born on 9 December 1667, the son of Josiah, Rector of Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire
School - Tamworth
Admitted as a sizar at Clare on 30 June 1686
Matriculated - 1687
B.A. 1689/90
M.A. 1693
Fellow, 1691

Sept 1693 - Ordained deacon (Lichfield)
Chaplain to Bishop Moore, of Norwich
1697-98 - Rector of Drayton, Norfolk
1698-1703 - Vicar of Lowestoft and Kessingland, Suffolk

1702-1710 - Succeeded Newton as Lucasian Professor and one of the first to popularise the Newtonian theories
1707 - Boyle Lecturer

30 Oct 1710 - Banished from the University for an essay which expounded Arian doctrines
Went to London and lectured there and at Bristol, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells on various subjects, comprising meteors, eclipses, and earthquakes, connecting them more or less with the fulfilment of biblical prophecies

Advocated a number of theories of which the most famous was that the Tartars were the lost tribes of XISR

Married Ruth, daughter of Revd George Antrobus, Master of Tamworth School in 1699

Died on 22 August 1752, aged 84

Matriculated at Clare, 1944.

Baptised on 22 August 1734 at Denton in Lincolnshire. He was the only son of Colonel William Welby of Denton and his wife Catherine.

Educated at Eton School, before being admitted to Clare College as a Fellow Commoner in 1753 and then at the Middle Temple in 1756.

Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1802 to 1806. He also served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1796 to 1797.

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

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.

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.

Pam Wadham worked in the Tutorial Office from 1971-1991.

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