Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, and was awarded the University Botany Prize (1962) and a double first class honours degree (1963). He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1967-73), where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology.
Japanese businessman and official. He was a confidant of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and served as a liaison between Japanese cabinet and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers during the American occupation of Japan.
Shirasu attended Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School and graduated in 1921. Afterwards he went to England to further his studies at Cambridge University at the urging of his father. By his own account, Shirasu was a troublemaker in his youth and him studying abroad had been arranged by his father as a form of "exile."
Admitted to Clare College in April 1923 to read medieval history. His best friend at Cambridge was Robert Cecil Byng, nephew of Edmund Byng, 6th Earl of Strafford, and later the 7th Earl. Shirasu adopted the style and manners of an English gentleman. He also cultivated a passion for cars, acquiring both a Bentley 3 Litre and a Bugatti Type 35. During winter break in 1925 he made a tour of the European continent together with Byng in his Bentley, driving down to Gibraltar and back.
Edward Hanson "Iceberg" Smith was a United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer, and Arctic explorer.
He was born 29 October 1889 at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.
He received a Ph.D. in oceanography from Harvard, and commanded the USCGC Marion and the USCGC Northland.
Most famously, he commanded the Greenland Patrol, and led Coast Guard efforts to defend Greenland against the Germans in World War II.
After retirement from the Coast Guard, he assumed the directorship of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Smith was a College servant between 1919 and 1966. He died on 18 November 1967.
Born in Middlesbrough in 1883
School - Darlington Grammar School
Worked in a chemical laboratory of the Darlington Forge Company
Enrolled in Armstrong College (now Kings College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), in 1904. B.Sc. (1907), M.Sc. (1909), D.Sc.
from Cambridge (1915).
After taking a fellowship at Armstrong College, Smith moved to Clare College, Cambridge in 1912. He published his first paper on corals there.
1913-1920 - Aberystwyth College, Wales
1920-1921 - Bedford College for Women, London
1921-1922 - Toronto College
1922 - became assistant lecturer in geology at the University of Bristol. Retired in 1948.
From 1913-1930, Dr Smith undertook annual vacations which would include work at the British Museum (now the Natural History Museum) and much of this work was undertaken with Dr W.D. Lang. He and Lang would mentor students from Cambridge, including Dorothy Hill, who was working on her PhD at Cambridge in the 1930s.
During World War II, extensive bombing of the Bristol Museum damaged a number of the collections Smith worked on. Like many academics he was prevented from continuing his research at the Natural History Museum in London, due to the emergency relocation of its collections for preservation during the War.
1947 - awarded the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal
Each year, the Stanley Smith Prize, named in his honour, is awarded to the best Level 3 student in palaeontology at the University of Bristol.
Matriculated at Clare, 1926, BA Medicine (ord) in 1929.
Noted radiotherapist and specialist in cancer diagnostics. Professor of Radiotherapy, University of London and Director of Radiotherapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
William Spicer, LL.D.
Vicar of Litlington, Cambridgeshire (Clare living), 1483
Vicar of Clopton, Northamptonshire
Will (P.C.C.) 1536
Large benefactor to Clare and to Trinity Hall.
Known to friends as Sebastian and also known as Jack Sprott.
Born at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams
School - Felsted School
Clare College where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles
He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools
In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group
He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova
After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham, where he eventually became professor of philosophy
He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk
Thomas Stearn (1825-1905), a Cambridge tailor, founded this firm of photographers around 1866. Later he ran the firm with his wife Eliza trading as 'Mr and Mrs Stearn'. Later still he took his sons Frank b:1856, Harry Cotterell b:1860, and Walter James b:1865 into the business, trading as Messrs Stearn and later as Stearn and Sons.
After Thomas died the business was run by his sons. Harry Cotterell Stearn died in 1906. Another son, Gilbert Stearn b:1866, was involved in the business at least until 1917. Walter James Stearn died in 1929. Thomas's niece, Edith was also involved with the firm.
Stearn’s operated throughout its history from 72 Bridge Street Cambridge, narrowly avoiding the loss of their premises in a fire in their darkroom in 1898. From 1908 to 1920 local directories also listed premises at Brunswick Terrace Cambridge. At some point between 1939 and 1943 the firm was taken over by A. H. Leach and Son, a well established and growing photo processing business based at Brighouse in Yorkshire.
A new limited company, Stearn and Sons (Cambridge) Ltd, was formed in April 1943, neither the shareholders not the Directors were from the Stearn family. During the period 1942 to 1950 the firm’s processing work was done by A. H. Leach in Brighouse. In 1966 A. H. Leach was taken over by an advertising company, Hunting Surveys, until the Leach family bought the business back from them in 1999. From 1968 the new company, Stearn and Sons (Cambridge) Ltd, did not trade on their own account but acted as agents of their holding companies. In 1970 the Cambridge firm joined Eaden Lilley Photographers.
Stearn and Son took most of the rowing photos until the late 1960's when they joined Eaden Lilley Photographers. Cambridge Central Library have a lot of the original negatives from 1942-1950. The copyright of the photos taken by Eaden Lilley has now passed to Lafayette Photography.
Born in 1749 in Scarborough
Admitted to Clare College as a pensioner in 1767, matriculated 1768
B.A. 1772 (2nd Wrangler), M.A. 1775
Fellow 1773-90
Junior Proctor 1778
Ordained deacon (Peterborough) 1773; priest 1774; Vicar Lillington, Warks. 1782-1790
Died 1790