Born on 24 March 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Father of Paul Mellon, (m.1929).
American Banker, Businessman, Industrialist and philanthropist. U.S. Secretary to the Treasury 1921-32, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. 1932-33.
Died 26 August 1937, Southampton, New York, U.S.A.
Born on 11 April 1613/14 in Hoo, Kent
Son of Peter Gunning, vicar of Hoo, Kent
School - King’s Canterbury
Matriculated as a sizar from Clare College 1629
B.A. 1632/3, M.A. 1636, D.D. Corpus Christi College 1660, B.D. Oxford 1646
Made a Fellow of Corpus Christi College 1633 -1644 ejected
University preacher 1641
Lady Margaret Professor 1660-61
Master of Corpus Christi College by mandate 1661 (February–June)
Regius Professor of Divinity 1661-74
Master of St John’s College 1661-69
Chaplain to the King 1660
Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland, 1660-70
Rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northants, 1660–70
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1660-69
Bishop of Chichester, 1670-75
Bishop of Ely, 1675-84
Died 6 July 1684
Dorothy Hill was an Australian geologist and paleontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.
She obtained her PhD from Cambridge University being a member of Newnham College.
Graduated with undergraduate and master's degrees in geology from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate from Princeton University.
Joined the Scott Polar Research Institute and was appointed Chief Geologist for the 1949-1952 Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition. During the expedition he made a 189 day, unsupported dog sled journey across the continent.
On his return to Canada he joined the Geological Survey of Canada serving as a field geologist until 1958.
Helped found the Polar Continental Shelf Program. Left after 14 years to act as science advisor to the newly created federal Department of the Environment, where he remained on staff until 1989.
After retirement he remained an active participant in polar research, and also became a key mentor within the Students on Ice educational program. He continued to participate in expeditions for Students on Ice well into his tenth decade, his last being to Greenland only two months before his death.
Master of Clare College, 1560-1571.
Born 1521 in Beneden, Kent the son of William Leeds and Elizabeth Vinall.
School – King’s College, Canterbury.
M.A. 1545; LL.D 1568.
Master of Clare College 1562-71
1548-1564 - Rector of Little Gransden
1549-1553 - Rector of Newton
1552 - Rector of Elm & Emneth, Norfolk
1559-1584 - Prebendary of Ely
1560-1561 - Precentor of Lichfield
1560 - Admitted advocate
Commissary and Vicar-general to the Bishop of Ely
1560-1581 - Rector of Cottenham
1573-1580 - Rector of Croxton
Rector of Snailwell & Littleport
Master in Chancery
Benefactor of Clare College and Emmanuel College
Died 1588 in Croxton, where he was Lord of the manor
William Butler matriculated as sizar from Peterhouse, Lent 1557/8, BA 1560/1, MA 1564, Fellow 1561. He was elected a fellow of Clare in 1572. Despite no formal qualification in medicine, he gained a significant reputation within the medical community; he is known to have acted as physician to James I. Widely considered an eccentric, his restorative techniques were uniquely imaginative. He is said to have once revived a man suffering from an opium overdose by putting him inside the chest cavity of a recently-slaughtered cow, and cured another patient of a fever by having him thrown off a balcony into the Thames. He died 29th January 1617/8 and is buried at Great St Marys, Cambridge.
Extract from Lempriere's Universal Biography , 1808: 'Butler, William, a physician, of Ipswich, educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, He practised at Cambridge without a degree, but the oddity of his manners, and the bold method with which he treated his patients often successfully rendered him a favourite in his profession. Some anecdotes of him are recorded, which exhibit him more as a capricious boy or a madman than a man of sound sense. He died 1618 aged 82. He left no writings behind him'.
Geoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was born in Tubingen, Germany in 1921 as Gottfried Rudolf Ehrenberg. His parents were the scholars Victor Ehrenberg and Eva Dorothea Sommer. Elton's family fled to Britain in 1939 and Elton later graduated in Ancient History from the University of London. He enlisted in the British Army in 1943 and became a British citizen in 1947. He later taught at the University of Glasgow and from 1949 onwards at Clare College, Cambridge University and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to 1988. He was knighted in 1986. Elton worked as publication secretary of the British Academy from 1981 to 1990 and served as the president of the Royal Historical Society from 1972 to 1976. He married a fellow historian, Sheila Lambert, in 1952. He died in 1994. Lady Elton later died in 2006.
Born 1719 in Norwich
Son of Edmund Prideaux
Admitted Fellow Commoner to Clare College 1737. Matriculated 1737.
Sherriff of Cornwall 1750
Died 1793 in Bath and buried at Padstow
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.