Admitted to Clare in 1922
Purchased Gatwick Airport in 1933 and is noted for inventing the concept of the circular airport terminal building, which was subsequently copied all over the world until air travel outgrew it.
Admitted to Clare in 1685
Admitted to Clare College in 1930 to read for the Classical Tripos; he later became Fellow in1952 and Senior Tutor 1954-7.
School, Merchant Taylors', London
Admitted as a Pensioner at Clare College on 2 July 1711
B.A. 1715-6
Ordained priest (London) 24 May 1719
Educated at King Edward VI School Macclesfield.
Admitted to Clare College in 1961.
Assistant Keeper of Paintings & Drawings, Fitzwilliam Museum 1970, Keeper 1976; Director Yale Centre for British Art 1981–1995. Director Fitzwilliam Museum & Marlay Curator 1995–2009; Master of Magdalene 2002–2012. Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.
Grew up in Retie, Belgium, and attended secondary school at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Mol
He read sinology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1991)
He went on to study Chinese philosophy at National Taiwan University before moving to Clare College where he obtained a Ph.D. in Oriental studies (1997)
He was a research fellow at Oxford (Wolfson College) and taught at the University of Arizona before returning to Cambridge in 2002
He served as Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 2006 to 2012, and has been a long-serving trustee of the Needham Research Institute
In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy
He is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University
Born in London, the son of engineer Alfred Pippard. He was educated at Clifton College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1941.
He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 to 1982, and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which he was the first president.
Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, and was awarded the University Botany Prize (1962) and a double first class honours degree (1963). He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1967-73), where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology.
These fellowships were arranged for teachers to spend a term away from their school studying a subject of particular interest
(Caldecote, Petty Cury in Cambridge, Gamlingay, Freckenham etc and benefices), 1680-1729