Matriculated at Clare, 1963, and graduated in 1967.
Geoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was born in T�bingen, Germany in 1921 as Gottfried Rudolf Ehrenberg. His parents were the scholars Victor Ehrenberg and Eva Dorothea Sommer. Elton's family fled to Britain in 1939 and Elton later graduated in Ancient History from the University of London. He enlisted in the British Army in 1943 and became a British citizen in 1947. He later taught at the University of Glasgow and from 1949 onwards at Clare College, Cambridge University and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to 1988. He was knighted in 1986. Elton worked as publication secretary of the British Academy from 1981 to 1990 and served as the president of the Royal Historical Society from 1972 to 1976. He married a fellow historian, Sheila Lambert, in 1952. He died in 1994. Lady Elton later died in 2006.
Matriculation at Clare, 1875.
(1592/3-1637). Matriculated at Clare, 1610, later a Fellow 1610-1631. He established a spiritual community with his extended family at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire in 1626.
(1949-2013). Fellow of Clare, 1982; Professor of French and neo-Latin literature, 2004; Faculty chair of Modern & Medieval Languages; British Academy Fellow, 2009.
Matriculated at Clare, 1919.
(1922-2006), matriculated at Clare, 1944. A bursary has been set up at Clare in his memory as the Howard Bursary for scientists with preference for those reading Chemistry.
Matriculated at Clare, 1894.
Matriculated at Clare, 1950. For more than thirty years he worked as a consultant to the London office of The Asahi Shimbun, and (writing in English, but translated into Japanese) he contributed to the funeral books of two of his bosses. He now lives in Thailand.
Matriculated at Clare, 1828.