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Born to Maha Vidane Mudaliar Gabriel de Sampayo in Colombo on 10 September 1855

Educated at St Benedict's College (former Kottanchina Seminary) before gaining a Queen's scholarship to study at the Colombo Academy (now Royal College, Colombo)
He excelled in school, winning the Form Prize, Prizes for Latin and Maths, and the Turnour Prize
He won the English University Scholarship to the University of Cambridge and study at Clare graduating in 1881 with a LLB
In later years he would name his mansion at Silversmith Street Clareden after Clare College
1881 - called to the Bar from the Middle Temple

On returning to Ceylon he started his legal practice in Colombo. He also served as a lecturer and examiner at the newly established Ceylon Law College, and was co-editor of the Ceylon Law Reports

In 1903 he was sworn in as a King's Counsel and was appointed as a Commissioner of Assize

In 1915 he was appointed a Puisne Justice and was made a senior Puisne Justice in 1922
He functioned as Acting Chief Justice on several occasions
In 1924 was made Knight Bachelor by the King

A devoted Christian, he was the first President of the Catholic Union of Ceylon. The Pope conferred on him the award of Knight Commander in the Holy Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Politician and diplomat. For 31 years he served as a Labour Member of Parliament. He was also British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Educated at Haileybury and Clare College where he was an athlete, and president of the Cambridge Union Society. Two years at Yale followed, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law.

Matriculated at Clare, 1966.

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

Born in Hong Kong the son of G.M. Dalety
School - Charterhouse

Matriculated at Clare, 1946 to study Law
1947 Law Qual 2 2nd class
1948 Law Tripos II 2:2
1949 LLB 2:1

Died 2004

Brother of Euan Campbell Dalgety who matriculated in 1943 and who was killed while in the RAF

From an Ulster family, son of Samuel Cunningham and Janet Muir Knox
School - Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and Fettes College in Edinburgh

Admitted to Clare College in 1928 where he read English with Mansfield Forbes, was a member of the Dilettanti Society and heavy-weight boxing champion

In the 1930s he studied law and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1939

During the Second World War he served in the Scots Guards although he continued his legal studies, and called to the Bar in Northern Ireland in 1942
Fought the Belfast West by-election in 1943 and the same seat in the 1945 general election
In the 1955 general election he was chosen as the new Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim
In 1959 he was made a Queen's Counsel

After the 1959 general election, he was picked by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. When Macmillan resigned, he awarded Cunningham a baronetcy in his resignation honours

Remained on the backbenches, known as one to the right of Ulster Unionism and a friend of Ian Paisley.
He retired at the 1970 general election

1973-74 - Master of the Drapers Company
1970-1976 - Provincial Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Gloucestershire
Member of the Apprentice Boys Club in Derry a

He died on 29 July 1976 aged 76

Military intelligence, the RUC and victims named Cunningham as a paedophile and identified his close links to the sex offender ring at Kincora Boys' Home, but MI5 denies this

Born in 1617 in Aller, Somerset, the son of Ralph
Educated by his step-father Dr Stoughton

Admitted as a pensioner to Emmanuel College 1632, matriculated 1632
B.A. 1635/6, M.A. 1639, B.D. 1646, D.D. 1651
Made Fellow of Emmanuel 1639

Master of Clare College 1645-54
Regius Professor of Hebrew 1645-88
Rector of North Cadbury, Somerset 1650
Master of Christ’s College 1654-88
Rector of Toft, Cambridgeshire, 1656
Vicar of Great Wilbraham 1656
Rector of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, 1662
Prebendary of Gloucester 1678
Author of Intellectual system.

Father of John born in 1672
Died 26 June 1688 buried in Christ’s College Chapel

Born in Sheffield, the son of landscape painter James Henry Crossland and wife Mary Ann
School - Windermere Grammar

1894-1900 Student at University of London (gained BSc. in 1900)

9 July 1897 Admitted to Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1897 Scholar
Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1st Class, 1899
Part II, 1st Class, 1900
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904

1900 - 1902 Assistant to Sir Charles Eliot (British Consul-General at Zanzibar, Commissioner for East African Protectorate)

1902-1904 Assistant to Professor William Carmichael McIntosh at St Andrews University

July-Sept 1904 Collecting in the Cape Verde Islands

Oct 1904 - May 1905 Investigating fauna and flora of the Sudan Coast of the Red Sea

1905-1922 Director of the Sudan Pearl Fishery

6 Jan 1906 Married Catherine Mary Dobson

1923 Scientific research in England

1924-1926 Joined the St George expedition to the South Pacific in 1924

1927 Scientific research in England

11 June 1927 2nd marriage, to Danish national Hildur Thal-Jantzen

1928 - Returned to Tahiti, to study coral reefs

1930-38 Established and directed a marine biological station at Ghardaqa on the Red Sea Coast

1938-1943 Moved to Denmark with Hildur and their son Ingolf Crossland continuing scientific work at the University of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum until his death

Matriculated at Clare 1919, graduated 1922, Clare organ scholar.

Matriculated at Clare, 1963, and graduated in 1967.