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Master of Clare College, 1781-1815

Born on 26 March 1743 at Little Stukeley, the third son of Revd James Torkington, Rector of King's Ripton and Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire.

Admitted pensioner at Clare College on 11 July 1761
Matriculated Michaelmas 1761
B.A. 1766; M.A. 1769; B.D. 1778; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1785.

Fellow, 1768; Master, 1781-1815.
Vice-Chancellor, 1783-4.

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 25 May 1766; priest (Peterborough) 31 March 1771
Rector of Teigh, Rutland, 1787
Vicar of Stapleford, Leicestershire
Rector of Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire until 1815

Died at Little Stukeley on 11 July 1815

Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, the son of a John Hinkes Tilman (wealthy sugar merchant) and his wife Adeline.
Educated at Berkhamsted Boys school.
First World War - commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He fought at the Battle of the Somme, and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery.

Known for climbing with Eric Shipton in Kenya and East Africa including Kilimanjaro.

Involved in two of the 1930s Mount Everest expeditions - participating in the 1935 Reconnaissance Expedition, and reaching 27,200 feet without oxygen as the expedition leader in 1938.

1936 - lead an Anglo-American expedition to Nanda Devi. Tilman and Noel Odell succeeded in making the first ascent of the 25,643 ft mountain, which remained the highest summit climbed by man until 1950.

1939 - was the first man to attempt climbing in the remote and unexplored Assam Himalaya.
1947 - he attempted Rakaposhi, then made his way to Kashgar to join up with Eric Shipton to make an attempt on Muztagh Ata which nearly succeeded.
He was awarded in 1952 the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal for his achievements.

Second World War - he volunteered for service seeing action during the Battle of France helping to cover the retreat in Flanders before getting to the beaches at Dunkirk. He then served in North Africa, Iraq and Iran before being called on for special duty in 1943. He was dropped by parachute into Albania behind enemy lines to fight with Albanian and Italian partisans. For his actions there he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was given the keys to the city of Belluno which he had helped save from occupation and destruction.

Following the War he took up deep sea sailing. On his last voyage in 1977 (aged 80) he travelled with mountaineers to the South Atlantic to climb Smith Island. En route to the Falkland Islands the crew disappeared and it was presumed the ship sunk.

Born in 1630 at Old Haugh End Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire. Son of Robert Tillotson, clothier of Halifax.
School – Colne, Lancashire
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 23 April 1647
Matriculated in 1647
B.A. 1650
M.A. 1654
D.D. 1666

Fellow 1651-61 deprived
Ordained c.1661
Chaplain to Sir Edmund Prideaux
Rector of Kedington, Suffolk , 1663-64
Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1663-91
Lecturer at St Laurence Jewry, London, 1664
Chaplain to the King, 1666-91
Prebend of Canterbury, 1670-72
Prebend of Chichester, 1670
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1671
Dean of Canterbury, 1672-89
Canon of St Paul's, London, 1675-91 ; Dean 1689
P.C. 1691
Clerk of the Closet, 1689-91

Archbishop of Canterbury, 1691-94

Died on 22 November 1694

Born in Unley, Adelaide, Australia, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife, Catherine Jane Nicholas.

Educated at Adelaide High School, then studied Chemistry and Geology at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney, graduating in 1915.
In 1916 he went to South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland, to work as a chemist Department of Explosives Supply.
He returned to Australia in December 1918.

He won an Exhibition of 1851 scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1919, where he studied petrology and completed his PhD in 1922.
From 1923 he worked for Cambridge University, first as demonstrator in petrology, and then lecturer in petrology in 1929.
In 1931 he was appointed as the first Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology.
Most of the remainder of his life was spent in England.

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and served as their Vice President 1949/50. He won the Society's Royal Medal in 1967.

1948-51 President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain.
1949-50 President of the Geological Society.
1957 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He died at home in Cambridge on 24 January 1973.

Master of Clare College, 1939-1958

Matriculated at Clare College in 1905
Fellow 1910-1939
Master 1939-1958
Vice-Chancellor of the University 1945-1947
Knighthood 1951

The Revd Canon William Telfer MC ()[1] was an English clergyman and academic,

Born in Rochester, Kent, the son of a schoolmaster
Graduated from Clare College in 1908 and was ordained and became the Vicar of All Saints Church in Rotherhithe
During the First World War he served as a chaplain and was awarded the Military Cross in the 1916

1921 - became a Fellow of Clare College
He specialised in early Christian studies

1921 - Dean of Clare College
1944-47 - Ely Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University
1947-1956 - Master of Selwyn College

Born in Cambridge in 1802.

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 20 November 1819
Matriculated Michaelmas 1820
B.A. (30th Wrangler) 1824
M.A. 1827

Fellow, 1829-71

Chaplain of St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1841-60

Died in 1871

Born in 1836 the son of John, M.D. of Ferns, Co. Wexford, Ireland
School - Diocesan, Wexford and at Trinity College, Dublin (Gold medal; M.A.)

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare, 15 Oct 1861
Admitted at Caius, 5 Dec 1862, but returned to Clare
B.A. (12th Wrangler and 1st in 1st Class, Moral Science Tripos) 1865; M.A. 1868
Fellow of Clare, 1866; Dean, 1875-84
Junior Proctor, 1879-80

Ordained deacon (Ely), 1872; priest, 1873
Vicar of Litlington, Cambridgeshire, 1884-92

1873 - Married Eliza M. Paula, daughter of Jeremiah Tully, solicitor of Eyre Square, Galway, and The Grove, Tuam
Author, theological

Died May 13, 1907, at Cambridge

Born in 1749 in Scarborough
Admitted to Clare College as a pensioner in 1767, matriculated 1768
B.A. 1772 (2nd Wrangler), M.A. 1775
Fellow 1773-90
Junior Proctor 1778
Ordained deacon (Peterborough) 1773; priest 1774; Vicar Lillington, Warks. 1782-1790
Died 1790