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Hardingham was one of the many benefices that Clare held that was exchanged for Ashill in 1939.

53 Cliffe High Street was rebuilt in the late 1920s/early 1930s and incorporated land and property that formely made part of Nos 51, 52, and 54A Cliffe High Street. The property was sold by Clare in 1990.

In 1326, the University, under the Chancellorship of Richard de Badew, founded University Hall, two messuages in Milne Street being assigned as a residence for its scholars. Little is known of the new college, but within a decade of its foundation, the founder was forced to seek a patron to rebuild the college, possibly after a disastrous fire. It was presumably Badew’s connection with the Clares that he turned to Lady Elizabeth de Clare for assistance and she refounded it as Clare Hall, endowing it with the advowsons of Littlington in 1336 and Great Gransden and Duxford in 1346, and providing it with a set of statutes in 1356. Thus provision was made for a Master and 15 Scholars (later called Fellows) and also 10 poor scholars.
Thanks to multiple endowments, including land at Potton, Everton and Gamlingay, Clare’s wealth and size grew steadily until it was necessary to completely rebuild the college. After a long legal wrangle, land was acquired from King’s College and between 1638 and the early eighteenth century, the buildings that form Old Court were erected together with the bridge which was completed in 1640. Further substantial additions to the College were not required until the twentieth century, when Memorial Court, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, built on the West side of the river, was opened in 1926 and extended later in the century. As admission numbers continued to rise, further extensions to College accommodation saw college property on Chesterton Lane consolidated into The Colony and St Regis Flats built on Chesterton Road.

Philip Whitwell Wilson was born in Westmorland, Cumbria, the son of I. Whitwell Wilson, a Justice of the Peace, and Annie Bagster.
He was educated at Kendal Grammar School.
Admitted to Clare College in 1894.
President of the Cambridge Union, and was also one of the first editors of the literary magazine Granta.
He worked in the Press Gallery in the House of Commons for twelve years immediately after leaving Clare and was an MP for St. Pancras (South) between 1906 - 1910. He also went on to write for the New York Times when he moved to America.

Master of Clare College, 1915-1929

Born on 19 September 1851 in Aberdeen. Son of William Mollison.
School - Aberdeen Grammar
Aberdeen University; M.A. 1872

Admitted to Clare on 21 October 1872
B.A. (2nd Wrangler and 2nd Smith's prize) 1876
M.A. 1879
LL.D. 1916
Fellow, 1876
Tutor, 1880-94
Senior Tutor, 1894-1913
Master, 1915-29

Mathematical Lecturer at Jesus College, 1877-82
Secretary of the General Board of Studies, 1904-15
Hon. LL.D., Aberdeen, 1897

In 1877 he married, 1877, Ellen, the daughter of Mr Mayhew of East Dereham, Norfolk.

Mollison was a distinguished mathematician and a sound Classical scholar.
'Remarkable for his mental alertness, energy, and perseverance.'

He died on 10 March 1929 in London leaving legacies to the College.

Born on 1 March 1716 in Kingston, Nottinghamshire
Son of John Berridge, farmer
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College, 12 June 1735
B.A. 1738/9
M.A. 1742
Fellow 1740-55
Taxor 1746
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 10 March 1744/45
Ordained priest 9 June 1745
Curate of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, 1750-55
Vicar of Everton, Bedfordshire, and Tetworth, Huntingdonshire, 1755-93
Well-known early 'Evangelical' preacher
Author of The Christian World Unmasked and other works
Died 22 June 1793