The University Pitt Club, popularly referred to as the Pitt Club was founded in 1835 and named in honour of William Pitt the Younger, who had been a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge. It is now only open to male students at the University of Cambridge. In the past, most of its membership attended certain public schools, however this is no longer a criterion for membership, and some members are now drawn from minor public schools. The Club has premises at 7a Jesus Lane, which was originally designed as Victorian Roman Baths in 1863 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. ( Details taken from Wikipedia)
Matriculated 1922
Matriculated, Clare 1851.
Matriculated at Clare 1919, graduated 1922, Clare organ scholar.
Matriculated at Clare, 1875.
Duncan Forbes (1922-1994) was a fellow of Clare College and Emeritus reader in the History of Modern Political Thought. Forbes came up to Clare in 1941, reading history and being awarded a degree after five terms on the basis of the wartime degree programme. He was called up for officer training in August 1942 and was awarded a Military Cross for his service during WWII before he returned to Clare in 1945. He received an MA in 1947 and was elected a fellow of Clare the same year.
Forbes became particularly well known for his knowledge and work on the Scottish Enlightenment. Duncan had several early 19C interests. His first book was a prize-winning essay on The Liberal Anglican Idea of History and though it focussed on English thinkers, it also revealed an interest in the 19th century revival of the 18th century Neapolitan philosopher, Giambattista Vico. Forbes had a further strong interest in Hegel, on whom he lectured, and wrote an introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Forbes was the nephew of Mansfield Forbes who was also a fellow and historian of Clare.
Matriculated at Clare, 1878.
Matriculated at Clare, 1713.
Matriculated at Clare, 1931 and died in 2007
(1910-1994), matriculated at Clare, 1929. During his time at Clare (1929-1932) he was a member of the Music Society and he kept copies of all the programmes of concerts in which he played. He also kept copies of programmes of various other music concerts in Cambridge that he attended and it is these programmes that were bound together into the volume in this series.
Following his War service he took an LLB at Cornell University but later settled in Los Angeles working in investment banking. In 1975, he and his wife returned to Cambridge where he once again became actively involved in music-making.