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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

Grew up in Retie, Belgium, and attended secondary school at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Mol
He read sinology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1991)
He went on to study Chinese philosophy at National Taiwan University before moving to Clare College where he obtained a Ph.D. in Oriental studies (1997)
He was a research fellow at Oxford (Wolfson College) and taught at the University of Arizona before returning to Cambridge in 2002
He served as Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 2006 to 2012, and has been a long-serving trustee of the Needham Research Institute
In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy
He is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University

Born in 1836 the son of John, M.D. of Ferns, Co. Wexford, Ireland
School - Diocesan, Wexford and at Trinity College, Dublin (Gold medal; M.A.)

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare, 15 Oct 1861
Admitted at Caius, 5 Dec 1862, but returned to Clare
B.A. (12th Wrangler and 1st in 1st Class, Moral Science Tripos) 1865; M.A. 1868
Fellow of Clare, 1866; Dean, 1875-84
Junior Proctor, 1879-80

Ordained deacon (Ely), 1872; priest, 1873
Vicar of Litlington, Cambridgeshire, 1884-92

1873 - Married Eliza M. Paula, daughter of Jeremiah Tully, solicitor of Eyre Square, Galway, and The Grove, Tuam
Author, theological

Died May 13, 1907, at Cambridge

Born in Cambridge in 1802.

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 20 November 1819
Matriculated Michaelmas 1820
B.A. (30th Wrangler) 1824
M.A. 1827

Fellow, 1829-71

Chaplain of St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1841-60

Died in 1871

The Revd Canon William Telfer MC ()[1] was an English clergyman and academic,

Born in Rochester, Kent, the son of a schoolmaster
Graduated from Clare College in 1908 and was ordained and became the Vicar of All Saints Church in Rotherhithe
During the First World War he served as a chaplain and was awarded the Military Cross in the 1916

1921 - became a Fellow of Clare College
He specialised in early Christian studies

1921 - Dean of Clare College
1944-47 - Ely Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University
1947-1956 - Master of Selwyn College

Master of Clare College, 1939-1958

Matriculated at Clare College in 1905
Fellow 1910-1939
Master 1939-1958
Vice-Chancellor of the University 1945-1947
Knighthood 1951

Born in Unley, Adelaide, Australia, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife, Catherine Jane Nicholas.

Educated at Adelaide High School, then studied Chemistry and Geology at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney, graduating in 1915.
In 1916 he went to South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland, to work as a chemist Department of Explosives Supply.
He returned to Australia in December 1918.

He won an Exhibition of 1851 scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1919, where he studied petrology and completed his PhD in 1922.
From 1923 he worked for Cambridge University, first as demonstrator in petrology, and then lecturer in petrology in 1929.
In 1931 he was appointed as the first Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology.
Most of the remainder of his life was spent in England.

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and served as their Vice President 1949/50. He won the Society's Royal Medal in 1967.

1948-51 President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain.
1949-50 President of the Geological Society.
1957 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He died at home in Cambridge on 24 January 1973.

Born in 1630 at Old Haugh End Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire. Son of Robert Tillotson, clothier of Halifax.
School – Colne, Lancashire
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 23 April 1647
Matriculated in 1647
B.A. 1650
M.A. 1654
D.D. 1666

Fellow 1651-61 deprived
Ordained c.1661
Chaplain to Sir Edmund Prideaux
Rector of Kedington, Suffolk , 1663-64
Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1663-91
Lecturer at St Laurence Jewry, London, 1664
Chaplain to the King, 1666-91
Prebend of Canterbury, 1670-72
Prebend of Chichester, 1670
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1671
Dean of Canterbury, 1672-89
Canon of St Paul's, London, 1675-91 ; Dean 1689
P.C. 1691
Clerk of the Closet, 1689-91

Archbishop of Canterbury, 1691-94

Died on 22 November 1694