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.
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
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
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
Born in Chelsea, Middlesex the son of Edward, of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and of Calstone-Wellington, Wilts
Admitted as a Pensioner to Clare College on 7 July 1822
Matriculated Michaelmas 1823
B.A. (17th Wrangler) 1827; M.A. 1830
Fellow, 1829-36
Of Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, in 1841; without cure.
Minister of the English Congregation at Tours, France, c. 1843-59.
Admitted to Clare College, 23 January 1950.
Matriculated at Clare, 1963, and graduated in 1967.
Born in 1855 the son and heir of Hugh, clerk, vicar of Scremerston, Durham
School - Durham
Admitted to Clare College on 20 March 1875
Matriculated Michaelmas 1875
Scholar, 1876
B.A. 1879; M.A. 1882; Sc.D. 1923
Esquire Bedell, 1900-20
Ornithologist
Author, Birds; Short Flora of Cambs., and other ornithological and botanical works.
Joint editor of The Ibis
Joint author of Aves Hawaiienses
Died on 28 March 1943