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Person · 1936 - 2015

Malcolm Mitchinson read Medicine at Queen's College, Cambridge and took his BChir in 1960 and MD in 1969. He was elected as a Fellow at Clare College in 1966 and taught here until 1990. He was the Director of Studies in Pathology for 20 years. He died in October 2015.

Obituary Clare Association Annual 2014-15

Person · 19 September 1851 - 10 March 1929

Master of Clare College, 1915-1929

Born on 19 September 1851 in Aberdeen. Son of William Mollison.
School - Aberdeen Grammar
Aberdeen University; M.A. 1872

Admitted to Clare on 21 October 1872
B.A. (2nd Wrangler and 2nd Smith's prize) 1876
M.A. 1879
LL.D. 1916
Fellow, 1876
Tutor, 1880-94
Senior Tutor, 1894-1913
Master, 1915-29

Mathematical Lecturer at Jesus College, 1877-82
Secretary of the General Board of Studies, 1904-15
Hon. LL.D., Aberdeen, 1897

In 1877 he married, 1877, Ellen, the daughter of Mr Mayhew of East Dereham, Norfolk.

Mollison was a distinguished mathematician and a sound Classical scholar.
'Remarkable for his mental alertness, energy, and perseverance.'

He died on 10 March 1929 in London leaving legacies to the College.

Person · September 1678 - 30 April 1736

Master of Clare College (1726-1736).

Son of Robert and Margaret Morgan and baptised at St Paul's, Covent Garden on 24 September 1678
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 12 October 1693
Matriculated in 1693
B.A. 1697/8
M.A. 1701
D.D. 1728 (Com. Reg.)
Fellow, 1700-20
Master of Clare, 1726-36
Vice-Chancellor, 1732-3

Ordained priest (Lincoln) 11 June 1704
Chaplain to Bishop Moore of Ely
Rector of Whitton-cum-Thurston, Suffolk, 1714
Rector of Glemsford, Suffolk, 1718-36

Died on 30 April 1736
On his death he left all of his books to the library at Clare.

Person · 3 December 1908 - 30 September 2007

Known professionally as C.F.D. Moule., was an English Anglican priest and theologian. He was a leading scholar of the New Testament and was Lady Margaret's

Born in Hangzhou, China, near Shanghai, where his father, H.W. Moule and mother were missionaries
His paternal grandfather George Evans Moule was bishop of mid-China, and his great-uncle, Handley Moule, was the first Principal at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and later Bishop of Durham. His family returned to England after the First World War.

Educated at Weymouth College in Dorset
Read Classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours
Studied theology at Ridley Hall
Ordained as a deacon in 1933 and as a priest in 1934
1933-34 - curate at St Mark's Church, Cambridge during which time he was also a tutor at Ridley Hall, Cambridge
1934 - curate of St Andrew's Church, Rugby
1936-40 - curate at Great St Mary's, Cambridge
1936-44 - Vice-Principal of Ridley Hall from 1936 to 1944

1944 - became a Fellow at Clare College, serving as Dean from 1944 to 1951. He remained a Fellow at Clare until his death, and was secretary of the Clare Association for many years.
1944-47 - a Faculty Assistant Lecturer in divinity at Cambridge University, a University Lecturer from 1947 to 1951, when he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity (the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge)
1972 - became an honorary Fellow at Emmanuel
1976 - he retired and lived at Ridley Hall
1981 - moved to Pevensey in Sussex.He continued to preach into his 90s.

1958 - honorary Doctorate of Divinity at St Andrew's University
1985 - made a CBE
1988 - honorary Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge

Person · 20 September 1811 - 20 July 1851

Born on 20 September 1811 at Blackheath the son of Thomas, mathematician and geographer
Educated by his father
Admitted to Clare College in 1828
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1829
Hulsean prize, 1830
B.A. 1833
Crosse Scholar, 1833
Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar, 1836
M.A. 1836.
Fellow, 1833-9
Admitted ad eundem, at Oxford, 25 June 1847

Ordained deacon in 1835
Curate of Ancaster, Lincs., 1835-8
P.C. of St John's, Keswick, Cumberland, 1838-51
Author, Catholic Thoughts (in four books); Lectures on Great Men, etc.

Person · 4 July 1900 – 11 April 1962

Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.