David Finney (1934), scholar in Mathematics
Fellow of Clare, Director of the University Botanic Garden, 1951 - 1973 (1906-1986)
(1934-2017)
Robert Grumbold was the Master mason in charge of designing and building the North (hall) range of Old Court. He was related to Thomas Grumbold who was the Master mason who designed and built Clare bridge and who is mentioned in the College building accounts CCAD/7/1/1/1. There is a memorial plaque to Robert Grumbold in the graveyard of St. Boltoph's church.
Robert Hargreaves 1880-1968
James Rendel Harris b. Plymouth, Devon, 27 January 1852 - 1 March 1941, (Clare 1870) was an English biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and other early documents. His contacts at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai enabled twin sisters Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson to discover there [1] the Sinaitic Palimpsest, the oldest Syriac New Testament document in existence. He himself discovered there other manuscripts
William John Harrison (1884-1969) was awarded a scholarship to Dulwich in1900 and was then admitted as scholar at Clare College in 1904 and became Fellow in 1907 after getting a First in Mathematics. The next year he was one of the three joint winners of the Smith Prize for a an essay on Mathematics. After lecturing in maths at Liverpool and then back in Cambridge he was commissioned as a Scientific Officer at Woolwich Arsenal in 1914. From 1919-1924 he continued scientific work in Cambridge and then changed direction to deal with administration of Clare College. He became Bursar, Financial Tutor and Steward and also dealt with the College Archives. This was the period when the College was run mainly by three men, Sir Henry Thirkill, Dr. W. Telfer and William Harrison who were known as the "Holy Trinity". Harrison retired in 1949 but continued his research in the Archives publishing books on the history of the College. He died in 1969.
Rev. Canon David Frederick Cox Hawkins (1917-1997) at Clifton College 1930-35, Clare 1935 (in 1st May Boat 1938)
Alfred Charles Morris Jackaman (d.1980, Clare 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.
Professor Robin Matthews 1927-2010, Economist, Master of Clare 1975-1993