Alfred Young was born on 16 April, 1873 in Widnes, Lancashire; his family moved to Bournemouth in 1879 and after being educated at home when to Monkton Combe School near Bath. He won a scholarship to Clare College and was admitted in 1892; excellent oarsman; began to undertake research in his third year which prevented him from achieving a very high position in the Tripos and so he was placed tenth Wrangler in 1895; he published his first paper in 1899, "The irreducible concomitants of any number of binary quartics" and in 1900 he introduced "young tableaus" the method for which he is best remembered; appointed as lecturer at Selwyn College in 1901 and Fellow at Clare in 1905 where he also became Bursar; married Edith Clara in 1907; ordained in 1908 and became a Curate at Christ Church, Hastings; also awarded a Sc. D from Cambridge; then parish priest at Birdbrook, Essex where he lived for the rest of his life, combining successfully the work of a parish priest with his researches in the theory of the algebra of groups. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934; he died on 15 December 1940. See obituary in Clare Association Annual 1947, pp. 99-101
Master of Clare College, 1959-1975.
Born on 24 August 1904 at 12 Fairlop Road, north Leyton, London, the eldest of three sons of Herbert Charles Ashby, commercial clerk (and later accountant), and his wife, Helëna Maria, née Chater.
Educated at the City of London School and then Imperial College, London graduating in 1926 with a BSc, gaining first-class honours in botany and geology, and was awarded the Forbes medal. He was appointed a demonstrator at Imperial College which enabled him to begin his research on plant growth and development.
1929 - awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship and worked at the University of Chicago and the Desert Research Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation. He returned to Imperial College in 1931 and was appointed as a lecturer.
26 December 1931 - he married (Elizabeth) Helen Margaret Farries, a graduate of Glasgow University who had won a scholarship to Imperial College to work for a PhD on fungal physiology. They had two sons: Michael Farries (b. 1935) and Peter Harries Chater (b. 1937).
1935 - moved to the University of Bristol as a reader in botany, where his teaching was mainly in genetics.
1938 - appointed to the professorship of botany in the University of Sydney.
During the Second World War he worked for the Australian Government and was the scientific counsellor and chargé d'affaires at the Australian legation in Moscow (1944-1946).
1946-1949 - Harrison Professor of Botany in the University of Manchester.
1950-1959 - President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast.
Spring 1958 - Pre-elected Master of Clare College, the first Master from outside Cambridge. Such an election would have been forbidden by the College Statutes had he not first been elected to a Fellowship so that he could obtain a Cambridge degree by incorporation. After a year completing their duties in Belfast the Ashbys took up residence in the Master's lodge at Clare in April 1959.
The lodge became a home for chamber music by dons and students, including performances by a string quartet in which Ashby played the viola. His fostering of music in the College extended to the Chapel Choir which, with the inclusion of women students, contributed to Clare's growing reputation for distinction in music.
During his Mastership Clare Hall was founded. He also set up a study group which he chaired to consider the admittance of women. In May 1970 the Governing Body repealed the statute that prevented the admission of women. The following year the first two women Fellows were admitted and in 1972 Clare admitted thirty women undergraduates; by the 1990s about half of the Clare undergraduates were women.
1954-1966 - he spent ten periods in Africa and visited more than a dozen countries, serving on commissions, visiting groups, and governing bodies, and acting as consultant and lecturer
1959-1961 - Chairman of a commission sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation to advise on the development of universities in Nigeria
1959-1967 - member of the University Grants Committee
1960-1969 - chairman of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
1963 - President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
1963 - Fellow of the Royal Society
1971-1973 - first Chairman of the standing Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
1974 - chaired a working to examine the possible hazards for the environment from genetically engineered organisms
1956 - Knighted
1973 - Life Peer
1975 - retired
22 October 1992 – he died in Cambridge.
Admitted to Clare College in 1945
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1980
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
Master of Clare College 1620-1645 (ejected); 1660 (restored but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham)
B.A. from Clare c.1602-1603
M.A. 1606
B.D. 1613
D.D. 1621
Fellow
Elected Master of Clare, 31 December 1620. Ejected in 1645. Restored in 1660 but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham
Vice-Chancellor, 1623-24
Vicar of Hendon, Middlesex, 1611-26
Rector of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, London, 1624-44 (ejected)
Vicar of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1625. Sequestered, 1643
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1625-62
Archdeacon of London, 1626-62
Prebendary of York, 1628-62
Chaplain to James, Marquis of Hamilton
Died c. September 1662
Master of Clare College, 1654-1660
Born in Deane, Bedfordshire in 1612. Son of Thomas, Rector of Deane. Baptised on 18 October 1612
School - Upper Deane
Admitted at Emmanuel College on 13 September 1629
Matriculated in 1629
B.A. 1633/4
M.A. 1637
B.D. from Sidney, 1644
D.D. from Clare, 1655
Fellow of Sidney, 1638
Master of Clare, 1654-60, and 1661-78
Vice-Chancellor, 1655-56, 1656-57, 1662
Ordained deacon at Peterborough, 10 March 1638/39
Rector of Offord Cluny, Huntingdonshire, 1654-78
Prebendary of York, 1662
Archdeacon of Bedford, 1667-78
Died in Cambridge on 22 November 1678
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
Master of Clare College, 1736-1762
Born in Grantham, Lincs.
Admitted sizar at Clare on 3 July 1708 and matriculated in 1708.
B.A. 1711/2
M.A. 1715
D.D. 1728
Fellow, 1714
Taxor, 1720
Master of Clare, 1736-62 .
Vice-Chancellor, 1736-7, and 1751-2.
Ordained deacon (London) on 19 December 1714; priest (Ely) 23 September 1716.
Vicar of Madingley, Cambridgeshire , 1721-30 .
Vicar of Everton, Bedfordshire , 1730-2 .
Vicar of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, Middlesex , 1731-62 .
Prebend of St Paul's, London, 1732-62 .
Sub-dean of York, 1750-62 .
Died in College, 16 September 1762.
Left his fortune for the building of the College Chapel.
Born in 1885 he was the son of Rear-Admiral Henry Compton Baynes.
He was educated at Clifton College and entered Clare in 1904. He obtained a first-class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1908, and in the same year was placed sixth in the Home and Indian Civil Service examination.
He was appointed to the Colonial Office, was secretary to the Malta Royal Commission and to the West African Currency Board.
In 1915 he was given permission to join the Army and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery.
In 1917 he was awarded the M.C. “continuous and conspicuous gallant service as forward observation officer”. He was killed in action in Flanders on 14 October 1918 aged 32 and buried in Hooge Crater Cemetary, Ypres.
Following his death, his family founded a Studentship at Clare in his name to support postgraduate research in the physical sciences.
Born at Southwick, Northants. on 22 Aug 1790. He was the son of the Rev. Joseph and Joanna Maria Smith.
Went to school at Eton.
Admitted to Clare as a pensioner on 1 May 1810 and matriculated in Michaelmas term 1810.
B.A. (9th Wrangler) 1814; M.A. 1817; B.D. 1833.
Fellow, 1815.
Junior Proctor, 1821-2.
Rector of Brington with Bythorn and Old Weston, Hunts., 1839-57.
Died on 30 January 1857, aged 66.
A benefactor to the College.