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Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge 1960-1968.

Born on 9 May 1901 at Holmes, Rotherham, Yorkshire and later won an open scholarship from his school at Long Eaton and came to Clare College in 1919 where he read Botany, Geology and Chemistry for the first part of the Natural Science Tripos.

He began work on the vegetation of Wicken Fen which saw the start of his contributions on the history of the British Flora.

In 1925 he was elected Fellow of Clare and became well established in the Department of Botany.
He became Secretary of the British Ecological Society in 1932 and later edited The New Phytologist.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945 in recognition of his achievements in ecology and also helped to establish the University Subdepartment of Quaternary Research which flourished under his directorship. During this time new fields of investigation were established such as radiocarbon dating.
He was appointed Professor of Botany in 1960, a year after he had been Acting Master at Clare (1958-1959).
He was knighted ten years later in 1970 and two years afterwards he retired in 1968.

See obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1984-5, pp. 76-79; Obituary by Prof. Richard West in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 34, 1988.

In 1932 Robert S. Hutton was elected the first Goldsmith's Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
He sought admission to Clare College and this was granted in 1936. He remained a Fellow until his death in 1970.

An Oxford graduate, Suzanne Paine became a Fellow at Clare in 1972 and lectured in the Economics Department, an expert on the economics of the developing world. She died in 1985 at the age of 40.

Read mathematics at Clare College and proceeded to a PhD in theoretical and experimental nuclear physics

1961 - elected to a Research Fellowship at the College
1963 - elected to a lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory

He served as Clare's Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutor for twenty years

Emeritus Fellow in Physics

Matriculated at Clare, 1879.

Born in November 1859 in Denmark Hill, South London, the son of James Sharp, a Slate Merchant who made money in the massive expansion of Victorian London and retired early rather than pass the business to his sons. Sharp went to Uppingham School (noted for its music) before starting a maths degree at Clare College, Cambridge in 1879. In Oct 1882 he left for Adelaide, Australia where he stayed for nearly ten years, working for five years as Associate to the Chief Justice of South Australia and then as a partner in a private venture, the Adelaide College of Music. There, despite his lack of formal musical training, he taught Singing and Music Theory, using spare time to write compositions of his own and to conduct the Adelaide Philharmonia Society (see Hugh Anderson 'Virtue in a Wilderness' Folk Music Journal 1994).

In 1893 Sharp took a part-time music post at Ludgrove School, a prep school in North London where he had freedom to create concert programmes with new material for choirs. He stayed there till 1910, combining it with several other jobs, notably as Principal of the (private) Hampstead Conservatoire of Music (1896-1905) and as Music Tutor to the Royal Household (1904-7). He had meanwhile married Constance Birch in 1893 and they had 4 children, settling in Hampstead. He joined the Folk Song Society in 1901 and began collecting Folk Songs in 1903. He proceeded to spend the rest of his life collecting with nearly 3,000 songs collected in England and over 1,500 on his four collecting trips to the Appalachian Mountains in USA (1915-18). He died in 1924 and most of his collection was housed and curated in the Cecil Sharp House in London by his daugher Joan. This later became the Vaughan William Memorial Library. See biography by A. H. Fox Strangways and M. Karpeles (rev. ed. 1967).

Born on 23 April 1889 the son of the Revd J.B. Wane of Castle Ashby Rectory, Northamptonshire
Was admitted to Clare in 1907
Later lived at St Colomba's Rectory, Nairn, Scotland in the 1930s
He gave a fine collection of bird books to the College about 15 years before his death in 1969 and these were deposited in the University Library in 1971. After his death the College received a bequest of silver.

Born on 9 December 1667, the son of Josiah, Rector of Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire
School - Tamworth
Admitted as a sizar at Clare on 30 June 1686
Matriculated - 1687
B.A. 1689/90
M.A. 1693
Fellow, 1691

Sept 1693 - Ordained deacon (Lichfield)
Chaplain to Bishop Moore, of Norwich
1697-98 - Rector of Drayton, Norfolk
1698-1703 - Vicar of Lowestoft and Kessingland, Suffolk

1702-1710 - Succeeded Newton as Lucasian Professor and one of the first to popularise the Newtonian theories
1707 - Boyle Lecturer

30 Oct 1710 - Banished from the University for an essay which expounded Arian doctrines
Went to London and lectured there and at Bristol, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells on various subjects, comprising meteors, eclipses, and earthquakes, connecting them more or less with the fulfilment of biblical prophecies

Advocated a number of theories of which the most famous was that the Tartars were the lost tribes of XISR

Married Ruth, daughter of Revd George Antrobus, Master of Tamworth School in 1699

Died on 22 August 1752, aged 84

Master of Clare College, Cambridge, 2003 - 2014

Born on 6 March 1947, and attended Cotham Grammar School in Bristol. He studied History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, B.A. in 1968 and M.A. in 1971.
1974 - Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Hull.
1999 - Hull awarded him an honorary D. Litt.

1971 - 1991 lecturer in the History Department of Newcastle University
1988 - 2002 and 2005 - 2008 - served on the Cambridge University Council
1992 - moved to the University of Cambridge, having been appointed Paul Mellon Professor of American History
2001 - 2002 - chaired its audit committee

Since 2004 he has been the chairman of Cambridge Assessment
2014 - he retired from Cambridge and took up a post as Professor of American History at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne

One of three Sassoon brothers who came to Clare (1905). NB He lived at 4 Market Hill, Cambridge during his time at Clare.

Admitted sizar at Clare, 20 August 1635.
Matriculated 1636.
B.A. 1639-40; M.A. 1643; D.D. 1661 (Lit. Reg.).
Fellow, 1642-4 (ejected); restored, 1660. He was one of 4 Fellows restored at the Restoration.

On 27 August 1661 he was required to go with Sir Richard Fanshaw to Portugal in connection with King Charles II's marriage to Catherine of Braganza.

Incorporated at Oxford, 1664.
Fellow of Eton College, 1661-70.
Canon of Windsor, 1662-70.
Vicar of New Windsor, 1662.

Died 23 June 1670. Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor M.I.

He was a man of great generosity and was devoted to his College. He gave half of the profits of his Fellowship for the last year to the building fund and in his will left £700 to the same fund..