Born on 24 March 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Father of Paul Mellon, (m.1929).
American Banker, Businessman, Industrialist and philanthropist. U.S. Secretary to the Treasury 1921-32, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. 1932-33.
Died 26 August 1937, Southampton, New York, U.S.A.
Born in 1924 the son of Alfred Simeon Boyes and Edith.
School - Rugby
Admitted to Clare in 1943
Lieutenant RNVR, N Russian convoys and British Pacific Fleet, 1942-46
Cambridge University, 1942, 1946-1948
Mellon Fellowship
Yale University, 1948-50
Assistant Master at Rugby School, 1950-55
Headmaster of Kendal Grammar School, 1955-60
Director of Studies, Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, 1960-65
Headmaster of City of London School, 1965-84
Dorothy Hill was an Australian geologist and paleontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.
She obtained her PhD from Cambridge University being a member of Newnham College.
Graduated with undergraduate and master's degrees in geology from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate from Princeton University.
Joined the Scott Polar Research Institute and was appointed Chief Geologist for the 1949-1952 Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition. During the expedition he made a 189 day, unsupported dog sled journey across the continent.
On his return to Canada he joined the Geological Survey of Canada serving as a field geologist until 1958.
Helped found the Polar Continental Shelf Program. Left after 14 years to act as science advisor to the newly created federal Department of the Environment, where he remained on staff until 1989.
After retirement he remained an active participant in polar research, and also became a key mentor within the Students on Ice educational program. He continued to participate in expeditions for Students on Ice well into his tenth decade, his last being to Greenland only two months before his death.
Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
Was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2006.
Born in 1857 the son of O. Perry of Loseberry, Esher, Surrey
School - Uppingham
Admitted to Clare on 30 January 1875
Matriculated at Lent 1875
B.A. 1879
Cricket blue 1875-8
Played cricket for England, 1878-9, 1880, 1882, 1884
Usually known as Nicholas or Nico Mann
Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1942
Read modern languages and literature at King's College, Cambridge, and completed his PhD there in 1965
1965-1967 - Fellow at Clare College
In 1967 he took up a lectureship at the University of Warwick
In 1972 he went to Oxford, where he became a visiting fellow at All Souls in that year, and subsequently a Fellow and tutor at Pembroke from 1973
In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London
In 2007 he retired and was awarded an emeritus professorship in Renaissance studies in the University
Admitted to Clare College on 14 October 1873
Matriculated Michaelmas 1873
B.A. 1877; M.A. and LL.M., 1880; LL.D., 1886
Admitted solicitor, May 1881 and practised in Birmingham
Died in Birmingham on 17 August 1899, aged 44.
Brother of Ernest Charles Rogers (admitted to Clare in 1876).
James D. Forbes was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at its University and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St Andrews in 1859.
Born in London
Educated at George Heriot's School and University of Edinburgh (M.A. Hons. 1933, PhD 1943)
Further study at Clare (B.A. 1935)
1957 - first Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham. He stayed at the university till his retirement in 1978
1974 - 1975 - President of the Royal Statistical Society
1984 - awarded its Guy Medal in Gold (following a silver medal in 1947)
1980 - Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980