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Master of Clare College, 1975-1993

Known as Robin

Born in Edinburgh in 1927
Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
1965-1975 - Professor of Political Economy at Oxford
1980-1991 - Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge
1975-1993 - Master of Clare College

Born in Chester in 1905 the son of G.P. Millett
School - Haileybury College

Admitted to Clare on 14 January 1924

Known professionally as C.F.D. Moule., was an English Anglican priest and theologian. He was a leading scholar of the New Testament and was Lady Margaret's

Born in Hangzhou, China, near Shanghai, where his father, H.W. Moule and mother were missionaries
His paternal grandfather George Evans Moule was bishop of mid-China, and his great-uncle, Handley Moule, was the first Principal at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and later Bishop of Durham. His family returned to England after the First World War.

Educated at Weymouth College in Dorset
Read Classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours
Studied theology at Ridley Hall
Ordained as a deacon in 1933 and as a priest in 1934
1933-34 - curate at St Mark's Church, Cambridge during which time he was also a tutor at Ridley Hall, Cambridge
1934 - curate of St Andrew's Church, Rugby
1936-40 - curate at Great St Mary's, Cambridge
1936-44 - Vice-Principal of Ridley Hall from 1936 to 1944

1944 - became a Fellow at Clare College, serving as Dean from 1944 to 1951. He remained a Fellow at Clare until his death, and was secretary of the Clare Association for many years.
1944-47 - a Faculty Assistant Lecturer in divinity at Cambridge University, a University Lecturer from 1947 to 1951, when he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity (the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge)
1972 - became an honorary Fellow at Emmanuel
1976 - he retired and lived at Ridley Hall
1981 - moved to Pevensey in Sussex.He continued to preach into his 90s.

1958 - honorary Doctorate of Divinity at St Andrew's University
1985 - made a CBE
1988 - honorary Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge

Born in Sheffield, the son of landscape painter James Henry Crossland and wife Mary Ann
School - Windermere Grammar

1894-1900 Student at University of London (gained BSc. in 1900)

9 July 1897 Admitted to Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1897 Scholar
Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1st Class, 1899
Part II, 1st Class, 1900
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904

1900 - 1902 Assistant to Sir Charles Eliot (British Consul-General at Zanzibar, Commissioner for East African Protectorate)

1902-1904 Assistant to Professor William Carmichael McIntosh at St Andrews University

July-Sept 1904 Collecting in the Cape Verde Islands

Oct 1904 - May 1905 Investigating fauna and flora of the Sudan Coast of the Red Sea

1905-1922 Director of the Sudan Pearl Fishery

6 Jan 1906 Married Catherine Mary Dobson

1923 Scientific research in England

1924-1926 Joined the St George expedition to the South Pacific in 1924

1927 Scientific research in England

11 June 1927 2nd marriage, to Danish national Hildur Thal-Jantzen

1928 - Returned to Tahiti, to study coral reefs

1930-38 Established and directed a marine biological station at Ghardaqa on the Red Sea Coast

1938-1943 Moved to Denmark with Hildur and their son Ingolf Crossland continuing scientific work at the University of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum until his death

Born on 15 November 1907 in Ayr, Scotland son of James Vavasour Hammond, an Episcopalian rector.

Studied classics at Fettes College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

In 1929 he began his personal exploration of the ancient sites in Epirus. He spent vacations exploring Greece on foot. He spent some time in southern Albania where he learnt the Albanian language. These abilities led him to be recruited by the Special Operations Executive during World War II in 1940. His activities included many dangerous sabotage missions in Greece (especially on the Greek island of Crete). As an officer, in 1944 he was in command of the Allied military mission to the Greek resistance in Thessaly and Macedonia. He published a memoir of his war service entitled Venture into Greece in 1983; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Greek Order of the Phoenix.

After the war he became senior tutor at Clare College

1954 - became headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol
1962 - appointed Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at Bristol University (which he held until his retirement in 1973)
1968 - elected a Fellow of the British Academy

Matriculated at Clare, 1969. Later became Senior Economics Lecturer, Buckinghamshire University, High Wycombe.

Aram Soli Rudenski won an open scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a triple first in the mathematics and medical sciences Triposes in 1979.

He did house jobs in Hastings and John Radcliffe Infirmary. As a Medical Research Council training fellow in Oxford, he developed a highly influential mathematical model of glucose and insulin kinetics. He held consultant posts in Bradford (1999-2001) and at Salford Royal Hospital (2001-11).

He was an enthusiastic teacher and gifted polymath, with rich cultural interests in the arts and natural history.

During the AIDS crisis he gave his time generously, undertaking substantial voluntary work, especially for OXAIDS. Involvement in the Jewish community was of central importance to him. He was a member of Leeds Sinai, Jackson’s Row, and the Manchester Liberal Jewish Community.

Prostate cancer diagnosed in 2011 forced him to retire prematurely, which was a great loss to Salford Royal. He leaves his devoted partner, David.

School - Wakefield School
Admitted to Clare College on 22 April 1898
Matriculated Michaelmas term 1898
Scholar and Exhibitioner
BA 3rd Wrangler, 1901
Mathematical Tripos Part II, 1st Class (1902)
MA 1905

Politician and diplomat. For 31 years he served as a Labour Member of Parliament. He was also British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Educated at Haileybury and Clare College where he was an athlete, and president of the Cambridge Union Society. Two years at Yale followed, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law.

Born to Maha Vidane Mudaliar Gabriel de Sampayo in Colombo on 10 September 1855

Educated at St Benedict's College (former Kottanchina Seminary) before gaining a Queen's scholarship to study at the Colombo Academy (now Royal College, Colombo)
He excelled in school, winning the Form Prize, Prizes for Latin and Maths, and the Turnour Prize
He won the English University Scholarship to the University of Cambridge and study at Clare graduating in 1881 with a LLB
In later years he would name his mansion at Silversmith Street Clareden after Clare College
1881 - called to the Bar from the Middle Temple

On returning to Ceylon he started his legal practice in Colombo. He also served as a lecturer and examiner at the newly established Ceylon Law College, and was co-editor of the Ceylon Law Reports

In 1903 he was sworn in as a King's Counsel and was appointed as a Commissioner of Assize

In 1915 he was appointed a Puisne Justice and was made a senior Puisne Justice in 1922
He functioned as Acting Chief Justice on several occasions
In 1924 was made Knight Bachelor by the King

A devoted Christian, he was the first President of the Catholic Union of Ceylon. The Pope conferred on him the award of Knight Commander in the Holy Order of St. Gregory the Great.