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Known to friends as Sebastian and also known as Jack Sprott.

Born at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams

School - Felsted School
Clare College where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles

He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools
In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group
He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova

After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham, where he eventually became professor of philosophy

He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk

William Spicer, LL.D.

Vicar of Litlington, Cambridgeshire (Clare living), 1483
Vicar of Clopton, Northamptonshire
Will (P.C.C.) 1536
Large benefactor to Clare and to Trinity Hall.

Born in Middlesbrough in 1883
School - Darlington Grammar School
Worked in a chemical laboratory of the Darlington Forge Company

Enrolled in Armstrong College (now Kings College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), in 1904. B.Sc. (1907), M.Sc. (1909), D.Sc.
from Cambridge (1915).

After taking a fellowship at Armstrong College, Smith moved to Clare College, Cambridge in 1912. He published his first paper on corals there.

1913-1920 - Aberystwyth College, Wales
1920-1921 - Bedford College for Women, London
1921-1922 - Toronto College

1922 - became assistant lecturer in geology at the University of Bristol. Retired in 1948.

From 1913-1930, Dr Smith undertook annual vacations which would include work at the British Museum (now the Natural History Museum) and much of this work was undertaken with Dr W.D. Lang. He and Lang would mentor students from Cambridge, including Dorothy Hill, who was working on her PhD at Cambridge in the 1930s.

During World War II, extensive bombing of the Bristol Museum damaged a number of the collections Smith worked on. Like many academics he was prevented from continuing his research at the Natural History Museum in London, due to the emergency relocation of its collections for preservation during the War.

1947 - awarded the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal

Each year, the Stanley Smith Prize, named in his honour, is awarded to the best Level 3 student in palaeontology at the University of Bristol.
 

Edward Hanson "Iceberg" Smith was a United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer, and Arctic explorer.
He was born 29 October 1889 at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.
He received a Ph.D. in oceanography from Harvard, and commanded the USCGC Marion and the USCGC Northland.
Most famously, he commanded the Greenland Patrol, and led Coast Guard efforts to defend Greenland against the Germans in World War II.
After retirement from the Coast Guard, he assumed the directorship of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Matriculated at Clare, 1879.

Born in November 1859 in Denmark Hill, South London, the son of James Sharp, a Slate Merchant who made money in the massive expansion of Victorian London and retired early rather than pass the business to his sons. Sharp went to Uppingham School (noted for its music) before starting a maths degree at Clare College, Cambridge in 1879. In Oct 1882 he left for Adelaide, Australia where he stayed for nearly ten years, working for five years as Associate to the Chief Justice of South Australia and then as a partner in a private venture, the Adelaide College of Music. There, despite his lack of formal musical training, he taught Singing and Music Theory, using spare time to write compositions of his own and to conduct the Adelaide Philharmonia Society (see Hugh Anderson 'Virtue in a Wilderness' Folk Music Journal 1994).

In 1893 Sharp took a part-time music post at Ludgrove School, a prep school in North London where he had freedom to create concert programmes with new material for choirs. He stayed there till 1910, combining it with several other jobs, notably as Principal of the (private) Hampstead Conservatoire of Music (1896-1905) and as Music Tutor to the Royal Household (1904-7). He had meanwhile married Constance Birch in 1893 and they had 4 children, settling in Hampstead. He joined the Folk Song Society in 1901 and began collecting Folk Songs in 1903. He proceeded to spend the rest of his life collecting with nearly 3,000 songs collected in England and over 1,500 on his four collecting trips to the Appalachian Mountains in USA (1915-18). He died in 1924 and most of his collection was housed and curated in the Cecil Sharp House in London by his daugher Joan. This later became the Vaughan William Memorial Library. See biography by A. H. Fox Strangways and M. Karpeles (rev. ed. 1967).

Master of Clare College, Cambridge, 1612-1620

Probably son of Christopher Scott of Bamston, Essex. Baptised there 4 February 1569.
Matriculated sizar from Pembroke, Michaelmas 1588.
B.A. 1591-2; M.A. from Clare, 1595; D.D. 1613.

Fellow of Clare.
1612-1620 Master of Clare.
1619-1620 Vice-Chancellor.

Subalmoner to the King.
1615-1620 Dean of Rochester.

21 December 1620 died in London and is buried at Bamston, Essex.

Born in 1927, the daughter of Edgar Walter Savours (civil engineer) and Margaret (a poet and teacher)

1949 - Bachelor's degree with honours from the Royal Holloway College, University of London
Studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned a diploma in French civilization in 1950
1950-1951 - Studied art at the Burslem School of Art

1952-1954 – worked as a library assistant at the University of Aberdeen
1954-1966 - assistant librarian and curator of manuscripts at the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University
1970 - assistant keeper at the National Maritime Museum
1973 - appointed custodian of manuscripts
1977 – retirement in 1987 - in charge of the Arctic gallery

1955 - member of the Cambridge Spitsbergen Physiological Expedition
1960 – member of the Australian National Antarctic Expedition
1960-1961 - honorary research fellow at the Australian National University
1978-1980 - member of the council of the Royal Geographical Society
She was also a member of the council and a vice president of the Hakluyt Society (from 2002) and of the Society for Nautical Research

John Rutter (1945-), Clare 1964, was director of Music at Clare from 1975-1979. He later formed the Cambridge Singers and continued to compose music and carols. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours for 2007 (in December 2006).