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Matriculated at Clare, 1884

Admitted to Clare on 21 March 1884
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1884
Scholar; B.A. 1887; M.A. 1891
Assistant Master at Wakefield Grammar School, 1887; at the London International College [Isleworth College]; at Christ College, Brecon, 1888; at Eastbourne College (and House Master), 1895-1930

Well known as a golfer

Died on 11 December 1933 aged 68

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

Born in 1930 in Dover and attended Epsom School.

Admitted to Clare College om 11 October 1948 to study Natural Sciences.

Matriculated at Clare, 1880. He read Classics and gained a first class degree in 1883. He was also a member of the Boat Club and later became Captain. He became Professor of Literature in Newcastle and also lectured in Cambridge. He then lectured in the US in 1892. He later joined the staff of Punch, becoming editor between 1906-1934. He was knighted in 1914 and later made a Baronet in 1933 in recognition of his public services. He died in 1936.

Master of Clare College, 1939-1958

Matriculated at Clare College in 1905
Fellow 1910-1939
Master 1939-1958
Vice-Chancellor of the University 1945-1947
Knighthood 1951

James D. Forbes was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at its University and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St Andrews in 1859.

Matriculated at Clare in 1965. Noted art historian - an authority on John Constable - Ron Parkinson was Assistant Curator at the V&A for many years.

Born in 1871 the son of Edward Chadwick, Vicar of Thornhill Lees, Yorks
School - Wakefield

Admitted to Clare as a scholar on 23 March 1889
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1889
Classics Tripos 1st Class, Pt I, 1892, and Pt II, 1893
B.A. 1892; M.A. 1896
Fellow, 1893

University Lecturer in Scandinavian, 1910-12
Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, 1912-39
Hon. D.Litt. (Durham). LL.D. (St Andrews)
Fellow of the British Academy

Author of 'Studies in Old English'; 'Studies in Anglo-Saxon Institutions'; 'The Origin of the English Nation'; 'The Heroic Age'; 'The Growth of English Literature' (with his wife)

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