Fellow of Clare, 1982; Professor of French and neo-Latin literature, 2004; Faculty chair of Modern & Medieval Languages; British Academy Fellow, 2009.
Matriculated at Clare, 1919.
Member of the Music Society Committee from 1920
1928-1967 - Secretary to the University Board of Extra Mural Studies
1963-1967 - Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
1947-49 and 1962-63 - Mayor of Cambridge
Matriculated at Clare College in 1944.
A Bursary has been set up at Clare in his memory as the Howard Bursary for scientists with preference for those reading Chemistry.
Born on 22 February 1876 in Belfast
School - Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh
Admitted to Clare College on 16 March 1894
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1894
B.A. 1897
Rugby Football 'blue,' 1896
Played for Ireland, 1899 and 1900; in the Anglo-Australian XV, 1899
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature Ireland
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, R.A.O.C.; D.A.Q.M.G.; mentioned in dispatches)
Fellow, 1923-34, Honorary Fellow 1956-74. Antarctic explorer (with Shackleton and Scott). First Secretary General of the Faculties (Cambridge).
Born in Tewkesbury, the son of Joseph Edward Priestley, headmaster of Tewkesbury grammar school.
Educated at his father's school and taught there for a year before reading geology at University College, Bristol (1905–07).
He had completed his second year of studies when he enlisted as a geologist for Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition (1907–09) to Antarctica. He was part of the advance team that laid the food and fuel depots for Shackleton's nearly successful attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1909. He returned to the Antarctic as a member of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), after being recruited by Scott when the Terra Nova arrived in Sydney.
Served in the British Army during World War I and was awarded the Military Cross in March 1919.
His research and thesis on glaciers in the Antarctic earned him a BA (Research) at Cambridge in 1920.
In 1920 he co-founded, with fellow Terra Nova expedition member Frank Debenham, the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge
In 1922 he was elected a Fellow of Clare College.
In 1924 he joined the university's administrative staff, becoming concurrently assistant registrar, secretary to the board of research studies and secretary-general of the faculties.
From the 1930s until his retirement, he held a series of academic and government administrative posts in Australia and England.
1935-1938 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
1938-1952 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
1947 - Knighted for Services to Education
During this period he developed an acquaintance with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, providing him with rooms for discussions and lectures.
After retirement in 1952, he served as Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service (1953-1955), as deputy Director of the former Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (later called the British Antarctic Survey) (1955-1958), and as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1956).
He revisited Antarctica in 1956 and 1959 and in the latter year was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for whom he was president from 1961 to 1963.
Born on 20 September 1811 at Blackheath the son of Thomas, mathematician and geographer
Educated by his father
Admitted to Clare College in 1828
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1829
Hulsean prize, 1830
B.A. 1833
Crosse Scholar, 1833
Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar, 1836
M.A. 1836.
Fellow, 1833-9
Admitted ad eundem, at Oxford, 25 June 1847
Ordained deacon in 1835
Curate of Ancaster, Lincs., 1835-8
P.C. of St John's, Keswick, Cumberland, 1838-51
Author, Catholic Thoughts (in four books); Lectures on Great Men, etc.
Matriculated at Clare in 1950. For more than thirty years he worked as a consultant to the London office of The Asahi Shimbun, and (writing in English, but translated into Japanese) he contributed to the funeral books of two of his bosses. He now lives in Thailand.
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