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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

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

Admitted to Clare on 14 January 1924

Born in 1832 the son of Henry, Esq., of Needham Market, Suffolk.
School - Ipswich

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 11 June 1851
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1851; B.A. 1855; M.A. 1858
Fellow, 1855
Dean
Proctor, 1862

Ordained Deacon (Ely) 1856
Ordained Priest (London) 1857
Curate of Christ Church, St Pancras, London, 1856-9
Vicar of Litlington, Cambs., 1866-7
Rector of Rotherhithe with St Paul's, Globe Street, London, 1867-1907
Lady Margaret Preacher, 1869
Rural Dean of Southwark, 1875-87
Hon. Canon of Rochester, 1893-1905
Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral, 1905-24

Lived latterly at 4, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge

Author, History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe.
Died 17 October 1924, at Cambridge.

Matriculated at Clare 1919, graduated 1922, Clare organ scholar.