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1883-1976
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Matriculated at Clare, 1965.
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Professor Susan Alcock is an American archaeologist specialising in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire.
She was educated at Yale University (1979-1983) and then studied Classics at Clare College (first class BA in 1985; MA 1989; PhD 1989).
She was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018.
She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics & Letters.
She was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2012.
Born in Bramford in Suffolk, the son of John Acton.
Admitted as a Fellow-Commoner at Clare on 30 January 1700/01.
MP for Orford, Suffolk, 1722, 1729.
High Sheriff for Suffolk, 1739.
Died in 1744 leaving £100 towards building the College Chapel.
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5 October 1949 - present
Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
Was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2006.
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18 September 1920 – 21 March 2006
Read economics and law at Clare College and was later made an Honorary Fellow.
Given to the College in the will of Dr. Henry Hornsby in 1517. Hornby (BD 1489/ 90) was a Fellow of Clare College and afterwards of Michaelhouse, before becoming Master of Peterhouse in 1509; he was one of the circle of Lady Margaret, mother of Henry VII,
Caldecote, Bourn and Toft: Deans and Pecks Farms (Blithe), 1680 and 1821 (combined with Gregorys Farm to create Caldecote and Highfields Farms; sold, 1932 and 1937). Deans farm and Pecks farm appear to be the same property according to the 1594 terrier.
Dennison was made Music Director of Clare in 1971.