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.
Usually known as Nicholas or Nico Mann
Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1942
Read modern languages and literature at King's College, Cambridge, and completed his PhD there in 1965
1965-1967 - Fellow at Clare College
In 1967 he took up a lectureship at the University of Warwick
In 1972 he went to Oxford, where he became a visiting fellow at All Souls in that year, and subsequently a Fellow and tutor at Pembroke from 1973
In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London
In 2007 he retired and was awarded an emeritus professorship in Renaissance studies in the University
Malcolm Mitchinson read Medicine at Queen's College, Cambridge and took his BChir in 1960 and MD in 1969. He was elected as a Fellow at Clare College in 1966 and taught here until 1990. He was the Director of Studies in Pathology for 20 years. He died in October 2015.
Obituary Clare Association Annual 2014-15
Born in 1857 the son of O. Perry of Loseberry, Esher, Surrey
School - Uppingham
Admitted to Clare on 30 January 1875
Matriculated at Lent 1875
B.A. 1879
Cricket blue 1875-8
Played cricket for England, 1878-9, 1880, 1882, 1884
Born in Chelsea, Middlesex the son of Edward, of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and of Calstone-Wellington, Wilts
Admitted as a Pensioner to Clare College on 7 July 1822
Matriculated Michaelmas 1823
B.A. (17th Wrangler) 1827; M.A. 1830
Fellow, 1829-36
Of Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, in 1841; without cure.
Minister of the English Congregation at Tours, France, c. 1843-59.
Admitted to Clare College, 23 January 1950.
Matriculated at Clare, 1963, and graduated in 1967.