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.
Thomas Merton, born Tom 1915-1968 (Clare 1933-34); later became Cistercian (Trappist) monk and Contemplative in America; was the author of many publications
Born in London in June 1728 the son of John Parkhurst of Catesby Priory, Northamptonshire
School - Rugby
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 28 June 1745
Matriculated 1745
B.A. 1748/9
M.A. 1752
Fellow 1751-52
Ordained deacon (Ely) 23 Feb 1752 and priest 24 Sept 1752
Biblical lexicographer and anti-Newtonian
Died on 21 Feb 1797
School, Merchant Taylors', London
Admitted as a Pensioner at Clare College on 2 July 1711
B.A. 1715-6
Ordained priest (London) 24 May 1719
Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Clare College.
Born in New York, USA in 1907 to James Dickson Boyd and Grace Smythe, he moved with his father to his homeplace in County Antrim, United Kingdom in 1917.
Born in Chicago, Watson gained a BSc at the University of Chicago and a PhD at Indiana University before moving to the UK in 1951 to work at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory. It was here that he met Francis Crick. In 1953, while Watson was living in Clare’s Memorial Court, he and Crick deduced the double helix structure of DNA, a crucial breakthrough building on the work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.
In 1962, Watson, Crick and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine ‘for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material’.
Watson was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Clare College in 1967 in recognition of his scientific work. Other accolades included the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977), the Copley Medal of the Royal Society (1993), and an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2002). Watson visited Clare College a number of times, including in 2005 to unveil a sculpture of the DNA double helix on Memorial Court lawn, and in 2018 to celebrate his 90th birthday.
Described by J. R. Wardale as the only volume to survive the fire in the Master's Lodge and Muniment Room in 1521.
(Gransdens and Warmfield), 1686