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Born c. 1678
Son of Robert Greene, a mercer of Tamworth, Staffs

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on the 8 October 1694
BA 1700
MA 1703
Fellow 1703-1730
Ordained London 1705
DD 1728
Died 1730

"Dr Goddard's note says: 'He published a large folio of his own Philosophy'. This was i n1712. In it he combated the Newtonian views. He maintained that there was no such thing as vacuum and that the circle could be squared; held strange views of gravity, and regarded the new system as tending to undermine revelation. It appears that he was thought by his contemporaries (not without some reason) to be mad". [Wardale, J.R., College Histories Clare College pp.150-151]

William Greaves was born in Rochdale, Lancs and was the son of William, of Gartside Hall, Lancashire.
He was admitted to Clare on 26 January 1719/20.
B.A. 1720/1. M.A. 1724
Fellow, 1722-42.

Admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 03 June 1724 and at the Inner Temple on 09 November 1727.
Commissary of the University, 1726-79.
Steward of the estates of Trinity College.

Married a daughter of Beaupré Bell.
Succeeded to his estates at Outwell, Norfolk, and assumed the name of Beaupré-Bell.

Died at Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, 10 March 1787.

Paul Mellon was born 1907 in Pittsburgh, he graduated at Yale in 1929 and then came to Clare College that year to read History. He graduated in 1931 and his father, Andrew Mellon, was given an Honorary Degree at the same ceremony. After his father died in 1937 he turned from his father's world of business and made philanthropy his extraordinary legacy. Over his lifetime, Mellon gave nearly a billion dollars to museums and other causes ranging from public health to the environment. In 2007 the College will celebrate the centenary of Paul Mellon's birth and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Mellon Fellowships. An exhibition has been mounted at the University Library.

Matriculated Clare, 1932.

Born on 11 October 1905 in Kensington the son of Charles Alexander Hill.
School - Harrow
Admitted to Clare on 15 July 1925 to read Natural Sciences.
He was secretary and then president of the Athletics Club with the half-mile being his speciality.

William Charles Denis Browne (1888-1915), matriculated at Clare in 1907. He was admitted on a Classics scholarship but spent most of his time at College pursuing musical interests and rowing. Took a teaching position at Repton after Clare but was there less than a year and then took a job as organist at Guy's hospital in London. He then taught music at Morley College at the same time as working at Guy's hospital and was also a music critic for the Times and New Statesman. He was killed in action at Gallipoli during the First World War.

Senior member of Clare with dining rights in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Was involved with establishing the University Centre and University College (now Wolfson College).

Born in 1924 the son of Alfred Simeon Boyes and Edith.
School - Rugby
Admitted to Clare in 1943

Lieutenant RNVR, N Russian convoys and British Pacific Fleet, 1942-46
Cambridge University, 1942, 1946-1948
Mellon Fellowship
Yale University, 1948-50
Assistant Master at Rugby School, 1950-55
Headmaster of Kendal Grammar School, 1955-60
Director of Studies, Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, 1960-65
Headmaster of City of London School, 1965-84

Admitted as a pensioner to Clare College on 5 May 1637
Leeds Scholar
B.A. 1640/1, M.A. 1645