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Mr Parsons retired from the office of Kitchen Manager in the autumn of 1949 after serving the College for more than 50 years. At the Clare Association Dinner, held in London on 10 July 1950, Mr Parsons was the chief guest, and about 200 old members of the College were present to convey their good wishes in person.

Person · 1581–1662

Master of Clare College 1620-1645 (ejected); 1660 (restored but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham)

B.A. from Clare c.1602-1603
M.A. 1606
B.D. 1613
D.D. 1621
Fellow

Elected Master of Clare, 31 December 1620. Ejected in 1645. Restored in 1660 but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham

Vice-Chancellor, 1623-24
Vicar of Hendon, Middlesex, 1611-26
Rector of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, London, 1624-44 (ejected)
Vicar of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1625. Sequestered, 1643
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1625-62
Archdeacon of London, 1626-62
Prebendary of York, 1628-62
Chaplain to James, Marquis of Hamilton

Died c. September 1662

Person · 1865 - 11 December 1933

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

Person · 1633-1731

Admitted sizar at Clare College on 19 January 1651/2
Matriculated in 1652
B.A. 1655/6
M.A. 1662

Curate of Trimley St Martin, Suffolk, 1662
Vicar of Cavenham, Suffolk, 1678-88
Rector of Tuddenham, Suffolk, 1688-98

Person · 1609-1677

Matriculated as sizar from Clare College in April 1627
B.A. 1629/30
M.A. 1633
Fellow 1633-77
Senior Proctor 1648-49
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough on 1 March 1639/40
Ordained priest at Lincoln on 18 July 1661
Vicar of Everton, Huntingdonshire, 1663-77
Died in College 1677

Person · 26 August 1888 - 25 January 1966

Born in Forshalla near Gothenburg the son of the chemist and oceanographer Otto Pettersson.

Studied Sciences at Uppsala University, graduating in 1909.
He then studied atomic physics as a postgraduate at the Institute for Radium Research, Vienna.

1913 he joined the staff of the Swedish Hydrographic-Biological Commission.
1914 he began lecturing in Oceanography at University of Gothenburg.

He became the first full professor of oceanography in Sweden and in 1938 founded the Institute of Oceanography in Gothenburg remaining as its head until 1956. He also was the head of the Bornö Hydrographic Field Station on Stora Bornö.

In 1956, aged 68, he became Professor of Geophysics at the University of Hawaii.

He wrote many popular scientific texts which helped disseminate progress in oceanography to the general audience.
In July 1947, the Albatross expedition started its around the world voyage with Pettersson as leader of the expedition.

He died in Gothenburg on 25 January 1966.