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Born in 1907 in Bordon Camp, Bordon, Hampshire, the first son of The Very Reverend Harry Blackburne

Educated at Marlborough College
Admitted to Clare College on 15 January 1926 where he studied Modern Languages and Geography

1930 - entered the colonial service and served in Nigeria, Palestine and the Gambia
1943-1947 - served in the West Indies
1947-1950 - Director of colonial information services in London

1950 - returned to the West Indies
1950-1956 - Governor of the Leeward Islands
1957-1962 - Governor of Jamaica. When Jamaica received its independence in August 1962, Blackburne was appointed as the Governor-General; he served in that position for three months till 30 November 1962 when his Jamaican replacement, Clifford Campbell, took office.

He died on 4 November 1980 in Douglas, Isle of Man

Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, the son of a John Hinkes Tilman (wealthy sugar merchant) and his wife Adeline.
Educated at Berkhamsted Boys school.
First World War - commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He fought at the Battle of the Somme, and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery.

Known for climbing with Eric Shipton in Kenya and East Africa including Kilimanjaro.

Involved in two of the 1930s Mount Everest expeditions - participating in the 1935 Reconnaissance Expedition, and reaching 27,200 feet without oxygen as the expedition leader in 1938.

1936 - lead an Anglo-American expedition to Nanda Devi. Tilman and Noel Odell succeeded in making the first ascent of the 25,643 ft mountain, which remained the highest summit climbed by man until 1950.

1939 - was the first man to attempt climbing in the remote and unexplored Assam Himalaya.
1947 - he attempted Rakaposhi, then made his way to Kashgar to join up with Eric Shipton to make an attempt on Muztagh Ata which nearly succeeded.
He was awarded in 1952 the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal for his achievements.

Second World War - he volunteered for service seeing action during the Battle of France helping to cover the retreat in Flanders before getting to the beaches at Dunkirk. He then served in North Africa, Iraq and Iran before being called on for special duty in 1943. He was dropped by parachute into Albania behind enemy lines to fight with Albanian and Italian partisans. For his actions there he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was given the keys to the city of Belluno which he had helped save from occupation and destruction.

Following the War he took up deep sea sailing. On his last voyage in 1977 (aged 80) he travelled with mountaineers to the South Atlantic to climb Smith Island. En route to the Falkland Islands the crew disappeared and it was presumed the ship sunk.

Mr Parsons retired from the office of Kitchen Manager in the autumn of 1949 after serving the College for more than 50 years. At the Clare Association Dinner, held in London on 10 July 1950, Mr Parsons was the chief guest, and about 200 old members of the College were present to convey their good wishes in person.

Born in Liscard, Cheshire he was educated at Rossall School and Clare College, Cambridge.

After graduation he worked with the Air Ministry on structural problems of airships.

At 28, in 1929, he contracted tuberculosis. Upon recovering, he became a technical officer with the Structural Steel Research Committee and developed the plastic theory of design, a revolutionary method of design of steel structures. In 1932 he was awarded the Telford Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the work.

1933 - Professor of Engineering at Bristol University
1939-1943 - scientific adviser to the Design and Development Section of the Ministry of Home Security. He created the Morrison indoor shelter
1943-1968 - Professor of Mechanical Sciences and Head of Department at Cambridge University Engineering Department.

1941 - appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1956 - elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded their Royal Medal in 1970
1961 - received a knighthood
1963 - honorary graduate as Doctor of Science at the University of Edinburgh
1977 - created a life peer as Baron Baker of Windrush in the County of Gloucestershire

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

Edward Leigh (1913-1998)

Working Dates: 1946 -1983

Edward Leigh was one of the few professional photographers to obtain a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society as well as a Fellowship of the Institute of British Photographers (the professional photographers' own body).

His photographic career spanned over 50 years. Before WW2 he worked as a fashion photographer and a stills cameraman for Fox Film Studios, later 20th Century Fox. During the war his printing skills were employed by RAF Oakington to process at great speed the aerial recognisance photographs which were assembled into the mosaic maps used by Bomber Command.

After the war Edward set up his own studio on Kings Parade in the centre of Cambridge, living on the premises. Edward did a great deal of work for University Departments and Cambridge Colleges, Including matriculation and graduation photos, portraits of fellows and visiting Royals. Many of his architectural photographs have been used for decades in books on Cambridge. He was a much sought after industrial photographer, skilled in the use of lighting and good at composition.

When Edward retired, his son John Edward Leigh took over the business, still at 22 Derby Road, Cambridge, which he listed as specialising in advertising photography, for a short period around 1983-85, before the business finally closed.

Working for Edward Leigh at different times were Doug Rattle, Peter Lofts and Frank Bird.

Born in 1889 in Leicester to Joseph Haines, a schoolmaster, and Lucy (nee Horsley).

Frank started his education at St Saviour’s School and in 1900 moved to The Wyggeston School where he studied until 1907.
He won an organ scholarship to Clare College where he was also a singer (baritone).
He obtained a B.A. Mus, Bac. (Cantab) and was made sub-organist of King’s College, Cambridge in 1912.

He became a Lieutenant in 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and was Killed in Action on 16.6.1917.
He is on the Arras Memorial (Bay 5), France and also the Syston Memorial as his parents were living at The Morlands, Syston at the time of his death.

Admitted to Clare College in 1945

Made an Honorary Fellow in 1980

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

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