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
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Admitted to Clare as a pensioner on 19 May 1758
Matriculated Michaelmas 1758
MA of Sch: Philadelphia College Philadelphia
Ordained deacon, London 11 March 1759
Ordained priest 1762
Fellow of Clare, 1982; Professor of French and neo-Latin literature, 2004; Faculty chair of Modern & Medieval Languages; British Academy Fellow, 2009.
Admitted to Clare in 1922
Purchased Gatwick Airport in 1933 and is noted for inventing the concept of the circular airport terminal building, which was subsequently copied all over the world until air travel outgrew it.