Also known as Master and Fellows in College. The committee of "Master and Fellows in residence" appears to have been a separate committee held alongside the governing body. As many of the issues they discussed were similar it appears that the committee of "Master and Fellows in residence" ceased when this volume ended.
The Finance Committee first appears in 1926 as a separate entity from the Council or Governing Body
Relates to all suggestions for improvements to buildings and facilities; so perhaps a precursor of the Buildings Committee
Churchill alumnus
Clare College held Fornham as one of its benefics and could present rector
Cavaleri Partership
Son of Richard Bayliss, entered Clare in 1964 to read medicine; BA 1967; participated in amateur dramatics and was a member of the "Clare Revue" and later the "Manic Depressives Revue" at the Middlesex Hospital
Undergraduate at Clare 1935-1938; elected Honorary Fellow 1983; father of Dr Christopher Bayliss (Clare 1964)
Born in Lavenham, Suffolk, in 1575. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1589 before migrating to Trinity and then gaining his BA in 1593-4.
He was later a Fellow of Clare 1598-1620.
He was also a Taxor, 1604 and was incorporated at Oxford in 1605.
He vacated his Fellowship when he succeeded to some property but he died soon after in 1622.
He is remembered as the author of the famous Cambridge play, which so delighted James I called Ignoramus. It was written in Latin in 1614-1615 by Ruggle and was modelled on an Italian Comedy by Giovanni Battista della Porta to caricature the pedantry of the legal profession. It was played before King James on 8 March 1615 on the occasion of his visit to the University and he then made a special journey to Cambridge on 13 May to see the play again.
Afterwards Ruggle was tutor at Babraham, Cambridgeshire, to the two sons of Toby Palavicino. The latter was Executor to Ruggle and paid his bequest of £100 to the College on 3 March 1624-5. Ruggle bequeathed his valuable collection of French, Spanish and Italian books to the College. [Details from Harrison index and Book of Clare, pp. 76, 143-4].
Admitted sizar at Clare, 20 August 1635.
Matriculated 1636.
B.A. 1639-40; M.A. 1643; D.D. 1661 (Lit. Reg.).
Fellow, 1642-4 (ejected); restored, 1660. He was one of 4 Fellows restored at the Restoration.
On 27 August 1661 he was required to go with Sir Richard Fanshaw to Portugal in connection with King Charles II's marriage to Catherine of Braganza.
Incorporated at Oxford, 1664.
Fellow of Eton College, 1661-70.
Canon of Windsor, 1662-70.
Vicar of New Windsor, 1662.
Died 23 June 1670. Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor M.I.
He was a man of great generosity and was devoted to his College. He gave half of the profits of his Fellowship for the last year to the building fund and in his will left £700 to the same fund..