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Master of Clare College, 1781-1815

Born on 26 March 1743 at Little Stukeley, the third son of Revd James Torkington, Rector of King's Ripton and Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire.

Admitted pensioner at Clare College on 11 July 1761
Matriculated Michaelmas 1761
B.A. 1766; M.A. 1769; B.D. 1778; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1785.

Fellow, 1768; Master, 1781-1815.
Vice-Chancellor, 1783-4.

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 25 May 1766; priest (Peterborough) 31 March 1771
Rector of Teigh, Rutland, 1787
Vicar of Stapleford, Leicestershire
Rector of Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire until 1815

Died at Little Stukeley on 11 July 1815

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 18 January 1652/3
Matriculated in 1653
B.A. 1656/7
M.A. 1660
D.D. 1679 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow until 1722
Senior Proctor, 1676-77
Obtained a mandate for the Mastership of Clare College 1678 but too late and Samuel Blythe was elected master.

Ordained Deacon (Lincoln), 10 March 1660
Priest, Peterborough, 22 September 1667
Rector of Blo Norton, Norfolk, 1660-1722

“In 1674 he preached before the King at Newmarket in a Long Periwig and Holland Sleeves, then the Dress of Gentlemen; which so scandalised even Charles II, that He ordered the Duke of Monmouth, then Chancellor of the University, to put the Statutes in execution relating to the Decency of Apparel” [Wardale, J.R. College Histories: Clare College]
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1683

Died May 1722

Pam Wadham worked in the Tutorial Office from 1971-1991.

Born on 23 April 1889 the son of the Revd J.B. Wane of Castle Ashby Rectory, Northamptonshire
Was admitted to Clare in 1907
Later lived at St Colomba's Rectory, Nairn, Scotland in the 1930s
He gave a fine collection of bird books to the College about 15 years before his death in 1969 and these were deposited in the University Library in 1971. After his death the College received a bequest of silver.

John Reynolds Wardale was admitted to Clare in 1878, became a Fellow in 1882, Junior Tutor in 1894, sole Tutor in 1915, remained as Lecturer until 1923.

Compiled the "Notes" from his research into the College records for "Clare College" (1899) as part of the series of University of Cambridge College histories, for "Clare College Letters and Documents" as well as for general interest.