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School - Doncaster Grammar, and at Yorkshire College, Leeds

Admitted as a scholar at Clare College on 21 March 1884
Natural Sciences Tripos Pt I, 1st Class, 1886
B.A. 1888; M.A. 1892
Athletics 'blue,' 1887

Ph.D. (Würzburg); F.I.C. Junior Demonstrator in Chemistry at Cambridge, 1888.

University Extension Lecturer, 1891-3
Lecturer on Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 1894-98
Professor of Chemistry, Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand, 1899-1919
President, Chemical Section, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1909

During the Great War, 1914-19, member of N.Z. Munitions Committee
Director, Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research, Nelson, N.Z. 1919-33
President, N.Z. Institute, 1920, 1921

K.B.E., 1938

Author, Papers on organic chemistry.

Richard Eden, Emeritus Professor of Energy Studies, was elected Fellow of Clare College in 1951, also becoming Director of Studies in Mathematics. He was closely involved in the founding of Clare Hall in 1966 and in that year he also became a Fellow of Clare Hall, where after retirement he is now an Honorary Fellow. He is the author of Clare College and the founding of Clare Hall, (Clare Hall, 1998).

3rd son of Orlando, banker, of Stamford, Lincolnshire
School - Cheltenham College

Admitted as a pensioner at St John's College, 12 June 1862

Matriculated from Clare College in 1863
Migrated to Clare, 15 April 1863
Scholar, 1863
B.A. 1866; M.A. 1869

Assistant Master at Wakefield School, Yorks., 1866
Ordained Deacon, 1871
Ordained priest (Gloucester and Bristol) 1872
Curate of Stroud, Gloucs., 1871-7
Curate of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 1879-84
Vicar of Great Gransden, Hunts., 1884-1914

Author, Lays of Great Gransden; A History of Great Gransden

Died 19 June 1914 at Great Gransden

Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge 1960-1968.

Born on 9 May 1901 at Holmes, Rotherham, Yorkshire and later won an open scholarship from his school at Long Eaton and came to Clare College in 1919 where he read Botany, Geology and Chemistry for the first part of the Natural Science Tripos.

He began work on the vegetation of Wicken Fen which saw the start of his contributions on the history of the British Flora.

In 1925 he was elected Fellow of Clare and became well established in the Department of Botany.
He became Secretary of the British Ecological Society in 1932 and later edited The New Phytologist.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945 in recognition of his achievements in ecology and also helped to establish the University Subdepartment of Quaternary Research which flourished under his directorship. During this time new fields of investigation were established such as radiocarbon dating.
He was appointed Professor of Botany in 1960, a year after he had been Acting Master at Clare (1958-1959).
He was knighted ten years later in 1970 and two years afterwards he retired in 1968.

See obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1984-5, pp. 76-79; Obituary by Prof. Richard West in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 34, 1988.

Matriculated at Clare, 1903. Changed his name from Schulhop.

In 1932 Robert S. Hutton was elected the first Goldsmith's Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
He sought admission to Clare College and this was granted in 1936. He remained a Fellow until his death in 1970.

Born in 1925 in Tunbridge Wells
School - Rugby

Admitted to Clare College on 15 January 1943

Born on 11 November 1924 in Finchley. Attended Bryanston School

Admitted to Clare College on 20 April 1942

Born on 7 March 1903 in New South Wales, Australia
Educated at Sidney University
Admitted to Clare College on 13 July 1927

Matriculated at Clare, 1932.