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Person · 1838 - 10 December 1904

Admitted sizar at Clare on 1 April 1857
Matriculated Michaelmas 1857; Scholar
B.A. 1861; M.A. 1864

Ordained deacon (Exeter) 1862; priest, 1863
Curate of St Mary Magdalen, Torquay, 1862-64
Assistant Master at Harrow School, 1864-69
Head Master of Elstree School, 1869-1904

Married Katherine Susan Oldfield
Died 10 Dec. 10 1904

Person · c.1604-1702

Probably the 2nd son of John Sanderson of Little Addington, Northamptonshire, and perhaps grandson of Laurence Saunderson (admitted to Clare College 1560)

Matriculated as a pensioner from Clare College April 1622
B.A. 1625/6

Ordained deacon (Peterborough) 5 September 1627
Ordained priest 21 December 1628
Vicar of Little Addington, Northamptonshire, 1627-46 sequestered

Probably brother of John Sanderson (admitted to Clare College in 1616)

For more information see: Howcutt, Francis Cecily Sanderson of Little Abbington and Moulton

https://archive.org/details/cecily-sanderson-little-addington-moulton-v01/mode/2up

Person · 9 November 1927 – 8 October 2022

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

Person · 4 February 1569 - 21 December 1620

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.

Person · 1861-1936

Matriculated at Clare, 1880. He read Classics and gained a first class degree in 1883. He was also a member of the Boat Club and later became Captain. He became Professor of Literature in Newcastle and also lectured in Cambridge. He then lectured in the US in 1892. He later joined the staff of Punch, becoming editor between 1906-1934. He was knighted in 1914 and later made a Baronet in 1933 in recognition of his public services. He died in 1936.

Person · 1892-1917

Joseph Senior (1911) studied Classics, was awarded the Greene Cup in 1915 and Owst Prize for Classics (for finishing in top 6 across the University in Part II). He was killed in action in 1917 serving with the Royal Flying Corps.

Person · 20 May 1948 - present

Born and raised in Lahore into a Punjabi family of the Khatri community

He graduated from Government College, Lahore (now Government College University), in 1967, earning the President's Gold Medal for achieving the highest academic distinction among more than 50,000 students of the University of the Punjab

Completed a Master of Arts degree in Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge in 1970
1971 to 1972, he was a PhD research student at Clare College
In 2011, Clare College named him Alumnus of the Year and awarded him an Honorary Eric Lane Fellowship

In 1988 he founded the English Language newspaper 'The Friday Times' in Pakistan

Person · 23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006

Son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton

Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent
Read Natural Sciences at Clare College
BA 1961
MA 1964

In 1967 Cambridge awarded him a PhD degree, for a thesis entitled 'The Measurement of Paleotemperatures in the Quaternary Era'.

Apart from periods abroad as Visiting Professor or Research Associate, Shackleton's entire scientific career was spent at Cambridge. He became Ad hominem Professor in 1991, in the Department of Earth Sciences, working in the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research.