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Born in Middlesbrough in 1883
School - Darlington Grammar School
Worked in a chemical laboratory of the Darlington Forge Company

Enrolled in Armstrong College (now Kings College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), in 1904. B.Sc. (1907), M.Sc. (1909), D.Sc.
from Cambridge (1915).

After taking a fellowship at Armstrong College, Smith moved to Clare College, Cambridge in 1912. He published his first paper on corals there.

1913-1920 - Aberystwyth College, Wales
1920-1921 - Bedford College for Women, London
1921-1922 - Toronto College

1922 - became assistant lecturer in geology at the University of Bristol. Retired in 1948.

From 1913-1930, Dr Smith undertook annual vacations which would include work at the British Museum (now the Natural History Museum) and much of this work was undertaken with Dr W.D. Lang. He and Lang would mentor students from Cambridge, including Dorothy Hill, who was working on her PhD at Cambridge in the 1930s.

During World War II, extensive bombing of the Bristol Museum damaged a number of the collections Smith worked on. Like many academics he was prevented from continuing his research at the Natural History Museum in London, due to the emergency relocation of its collections for preservation during the War.

1947 - awarded the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal

Each year, the Stanley Smith Prize, named in his honour, is awarded to the best Level 3 student in palaeontology at the University of Bristol.
 

William Spicer, LL.D.

Vicar of Litlington, Cambridgeshire (Clare living), 1483
Vicar of Clopton, Northamptonshire
Will (P.C.C.) 1536
Large benefactor to Clare and to Trinity Hall.

Known to friends as Sebastian and also known as Jack Sprott.

Born at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams

School - Felsted School
Clare College where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles

He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools
In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group
He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova

After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham, where he eventually became professor of philosophy

He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk

Thomas Stearn (1825-1905), a Cambridge tailor, founded this firm of photographers around 1866. Later he ran the firm with his wife Eliza trading as 'Mr and Mrs Stearn'. Later still he took his sons Frank b:1856, Harry Cotterell b:1860, and Walter James b:1865 into the business, trading as Messrs Stearn and later as Stearn and Sons.
After Thomas died the business was run by his sons. Harry Cotterell Stearn died in 1906. Another son, Gilbert Stearn b:1866, was involved in the business at least until 1917. Walter James Stearn died in 1929. Thomas's niece, Edith was also involved with the firm.

Stearn’s operated throughout its history from 72 Bridge Street Cambridge, narrowly avoiding the loss of their premises in a fire in their darkroom in 1898. From 1908 to 1920 local directories also listed premises at Brunswick Terrace Cambridge. At some point between 1939 and 1943 the firm was taken over by A. H. Leach and Son, a well established and growing photo processing business based at Brighouse in Yorkshire.

A new limited company, Stearn and Sons (Cambridge) Ltd, was formed in April 1943, neither the shareholders not the Directors were from the Stearn family. During the period 1942 to 1950 the firm’s processing work was done by A. H. Leach in Brighouse. In 1966 A. H. Leach was taken over by an advertising company, Hunting Surveys, until the Leach family bought the business back from them in 1999. From 1968 the new company, Stearn and Sons (Cambridge) Ltd, did not trade on their own account but acted as agents of their holding companies. In 1970 the Cambridge firm joined Eaden Lilley Photographers.

Stearn and Son took most of the rowing photos until the late 1960's when they joined Eaden Lilley Photographers. Cambridge Central Library have a lot of the original negatives from 1942-1950. The copyright of the photos taken by Eaden Lilley has now passed to Lafayette Photography.

Master of Clare College, 1939-1958

Matriculated at Clare College in 1905
Fellow 1910-1939
Master 1939-1958
Vice-Chancellor of the University 1945-1947
Knighthood 1951

Born in Unley, Adelaide, Australia, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife, Catherine Jane Nicholas.

Educated at Adelaide High School, then studied Chemistry and Geology at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney, graduating in 1915.
In 1916 he went to South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland, to work as a chemist Department of Explosives Supply.
He returned to Australia in December 1918.

He won an Exhibition of 1851 scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1919, where he studied petrology and completed his PhD in 1922.
From 1923 he worked for Cambridge University, first as demonstrator in petrology, and then lecturer in petrology in 1929.
In 1931 he was appointed as the first Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology.
Most of the remainder of his life was spent in England.

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and served as their Vice President 1949/50. He won the Society's Royal Medal in 1967.

1948-51 President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain.
1949-50 President of the Geological Society.
1957 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He died at home in Cambridge on 24 January 1973.

Born in 1630 at Old Haugh End Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire. Son of Robert Tillotson, clothier of Halifax.
School – Colne, Lancashire
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 23 April 1647
Matriculated in 1647
B.A. 1650
M.A. 1654
D.D. 1666

Fellow 1651-61 deprived
Ordained c.1661
Chaplain to Sir Edmund Prideaux
Rector of Kedington, Suffolk , 1663-64
Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1663-91
Lecturer at St Laurence Jewry, London, 1664
Chaplain to the King, 1666-91
Prebend of Canterbury, 1670-72
Prebend of Chichester, 1670
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1671
Dean of Canterbury, 1672-89
Canon of St Paul's, London, 1675-91 ; Dean 1689
P.C. 1691
Clerk of the Closet, 1689-91

Archbishop of Canterbury, 1691-94

Died on 22 November 1694

Master of Clare College, 1781-1815

Born on 26 March 1743 at Little Stukeley, the third son of Revd James Torkington, Rector of King's Ripton and Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire.

Admitted pensioner at Clare College on 11 July 1761
Matriculated Michaelmas 1761
B.A. 1766; M.A. 1769; B.D. 1778; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1785.

Fellow, 1768; Master, 1781-1815.
Vice-Chancellor, 1783-4.

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 25 May 1766; priest (Peterborough) 31 March 1771
Rector of Teigh, Rutland, 1787
Vicar of Stapleford, Leicestershire
Rector of Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire until 1815

Died at Little Stukeley on 11 July 1815