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Guy Vickery Pinfield was born in Assam, India on 21 October 1894 to Frank and Gertrude Pinfield. His father was a tea planter and his mother's brother Charles Simkins ran the Amguri Tea Estate at Assam.

His father died suddenly in January 1897 in Liverpool. On the 1901 Census, Guy was living with his widowed mother and sister at 43 Lansdown Place, Hove, Sussex. The same year, his mother married Patrick Russel and they later lived at Dane House, a mansion in Bishops Stortford.

He was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire from 1908 to Easter 1912 and entered Clare College in 1913. He was athletic and distinguished himself at rugby and played for Rosslyn Park RFC in south west London.

Wartime Service
He joined the Army when war was declared and received his commission on 15 August 1914 as a 2nd Lt in the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars.

By 1916, Pinfield was stationed at the Curragh and attached to the 10th Reserve Cavalry Regiment. When the Easter Rising began, he was sent to Dublin with reinforcements. Not far from Saint Patrick's Cathedral, he was mortally wounded, being among the first British officers (116 British soldiers) to lose his life during the Rebellion. His body was temporarily laid to rest within the grounds of Dublin Castle.

Unclaimed, his grave along with four others, lay forgotten until 1962. In 1963, his body was re-interred at Grangegorman Military Cemetery. A plaque is dedicated to Lieutenant Pinfield inside Dublin's Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Church of Ireland); the only plaque within the cathedral dedicated to an individual killed during the 1916 Rising. In 2011, Guy Vickery Pinfield was the subject of both an RTE presentation and an article in the "Irish Times" relating to a gold locket which had been sold at auction for £850, more than double its estimate. It had been worn by his mother and was engraved with his initials, his date of death and the Hussar's motto "Pristinae virtutis memories" (The memory of former valour).

Born in London, the son of engineer Alfred Pippard. He was educated at Clifton College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1941.

He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 to 1982, and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which he was the first president.

James Plumptree was an undergraduate at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1788 or 1789 and then moved to Clare in 1790, ordained in 1794 and elected as Fellow at Clare in same year; curate of Hinxton, Essex from 1897 and then Vicar of Great Gransden from 1812; married Elizabeth Robinson in 1815.
Died on 23 January 1832, soon after his sixtieth birthday.

Edward Brian Pope was born on 29 June 1911 and came up to Clare in 1929. He became a rugby blue whilst at Clare and as such was one of the few.

Humphrey Prideaux 1648-1724 was a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford and Dean of Norwich. In 1721 he presented Clare College with the Orientalia of his Library, about 134 volumes. His son, Edmund Prideaux, was admitted as Fellow-Commoner at Clare in 1711 and was the artist remembered for his colourful drawing of the College buildings in 1714.

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.

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

Lettice Ramsey (née Baker, 1898 -1985) was a graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, and she married Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, Frank Ramsey (son of A.S. Ramsey, President of Magdalene College) in 1926. Frank died in 1930 and Lettice looked for a new way to support herself and her two young daughters. In 1932 she set up in the photographic business with Helen Muspratt, a Dorset photographer who had trained at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Lettice had the Cambridge contacts to get the firm work while Helen had the photographic skills and experience.

In 1937 Helen Muspratt moved to Oxford and set up a second studio for the firm there. While the partnership continued, Helen ran the Oxford Studio and Lettice the Cambridge one.

Nicholas Lee took over the business in 1978 when Lettice retired. The business was then purchased by Peter Lofts in 1980. There is an extensive indexed negative collection from the firm in the Cambridgeshire Collection, deposited by Peter Lofts after he bought up the business.

Ramsey and Muspratt are best known for their portrait work. Their sympathetic, well lit images quickly made the firm fashionable, photographing the up and coming and influential throughout the 1930s, including Anthony Blunt and Virginia Woolf. The firm also undertook a wide range of commercial photography.

Copyright and Reproductions
The negatives that survive from the studio and copyright are held in the Cambridgeshire Collection, the local studies department of Cambridgeshire Libraries.
Contact - Mary Burgess, Local Studies Librarian, Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library, (01223) 699755, Cambridgeshire.Collection@cambridgeshire.gov.uk