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Brown, Basil
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Basil Brown, matriculated at Clare, 1943 and was a member of the Argus Club; read Natural Sciences; died in July 2002

Person · 27 August 1924 - 6 July 2004

Born in 1924 the son of Alfred Simeon Boyes and Edith.
School - Rugby
Admitted to Clare in 1943

Lieutenant RNVR, N Russian convoys and British Pacific Fleet, 1942-46
Cambridge University, 1942, 1946-1948
Mellon Fellowship
Yale University, 1948-50
Assistant Master at Rugby School, 1950-55
Headmaster of Kendal Grammar School, 1955-60
Director of Studies, Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, 1960-65
Headmaster of City of London School, 1965-84

Person · 1710-1808

Born 1710 in Ipswich the son of Weyman Bouchery
Schools - Canterbury and St. Paul’s, London

Admitted pensioner to Clare College 1728; Matriculated 1729
B.A. 1732/3; M.A. 1736
Fellow 1736-47

Rector of Llanymynech, Shrops 1745-48
Rector of LLansaintfraid-yn-Mechain (Montgomery) 1746-48
Prebendary of St. Asaph (Flintshire), 1746
Chaplain to the Bishop of St Asaph
Vicar of Swaffham 1748-87
Curate of Northolt, Middlesex

Married Anna Jemima Hales at Isleworth
Died 1808 and is buried at Swaffham

Person · c.1564 - 1636

Born at Lackford, Suffolk in c.1564, the son of John Borage
School, Bury St Edmunds

Admitted pensioner (age 17) at Caius on 6 November 1581
Matriculated in 1581. Probably afterwards scholar at Clare
Admitted at the Middle Temple, December 1584

Founded a Fellowship at Clare, by will, 1636-7. He made over a rentcharge of £15 a year for the foundation of a Fellowship confined to natives of Norfolk and tenable for five years from the time of taking the MA degree.

Person · 7 May 1910 – 19 December 1993

A child prodigy, Bor was a recitalist during the 1920s and 1930s. She performed with the Griller Quartet, the Amadeus and the Kantrovich Trio, and was a regular broadcaster for the BBC.

Two of her pianist contemporaries were Eileen Joyce, and Myra Hess, who organised the wartime concerts at the National Gallery. Bor created her own series of lunchtime concerts at London's Royal Exchange.

After World War II she became a piano teacher. Her pupils included Prince Charles and Princess Anne.