Admitted as a pensioner to Clare College on 5 May 1637
Leeds Scholar
B.A. 1640/1, M.A. 1645
Fellow of Clare College 1960-1998
University Lecturer in Geology 1955-1982
Born in 1907 in Bordon Camp, Bordon, Hampshire, the first son of The Very Reverend Harry Blackburne
Educated at Marlborough College
Admitted to Clare College on 15 January 1926 where he studied Modern Languages and Geography
1930 - entered the colonial service and served in Nigeria, Palestine and the Gambia
1943-1947 - served in the West Indies
1947-1950 - Director of colonial information services in London
1950 - returned to the West Indies
1950-1956 - Governor of the Leeward Islands
1957-1962 - Governor of Jamaica. When Jamaica received its independence in August 1962, Blackburne was appointed as the Governor-General; he served in that position for three months till 30 November 1962 when his Jamaican replacement, Clifford Campbell, took office.
He died on 4 November 1980 in Douglas, Isle of Man
Took a degree in geology and earth sciences at the University of Chicago
1925 - Master of Science in geology
1930 - Ph.D. in geology from Harvard after studying at Radcliffe College, the female-coordinated liberal arts college affiliated with Harvard College
1925-1926 - professor at Goucher College
1926-1928 - professor at Wellesley College
Independent academic engagements and research pursuits excluded her from the educational profession for some time
1957-1961 - professor of Engineering Geology at Harvard University
1963-1970 - research fellow while pursuing her own research and interests in the field of geology
It was through her research that she met her husband and lifelong scientific partner, Karl von Terzaghi, whom she married after receiving her Ph.D. in 1930.
Edward Hanson "Iceberg" Smith was a United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer, and Arctic explorer.
He was born 29 October 1889 at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.
He received a Ph.D. in oceanography from Harvard, and commanded the USCGC Marion and the USCGC Northland.
Most famously, he commanded the Greenland Patrol, and led Coast Guard efforts to defend Greenland against the Germans in World War II.
After retirement from the Coast Guard, he assumed the directorship of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Born in Palmanova, Friuli, Italy and educated at the University of Florence (1916–1920) graduating with a degree in Natural Sciences.
First World War - served in the military corps of the alpini and was captured by the Austrians.
Worked in the Universities of Florence, Pavia (1923–1924) and Milan (1924–1927) and as a consultant geologist for the Edison Company for hydroelectric plants in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey and Brazil, and the same capacity for the Public Power Corporation of Greece.
1973 he became Professor Emeritus at the University of Milan.
Led geographical and geological expeditions in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He also explored Antarctica.
In 1954 he led the Italian expedition to K2 when Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit
He spent his last four years in Rome, where he died in December 2001, aged 104.
Graduated with undergraduate and master's degrees in geology from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate from Princeton University.
Joined the Scott Polar Research Institute and was appointed Chief Geologist for the 1949-1952 Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition. During the expedition he made a 189 day, unsupported dog sled journey across the continent.
On his return to Canada he joined the Geological Survey of Canada serving as a field geologist until 1958.
Helped found the Polar Continental Shelf Program. Left after 14 years to act as science advisor to the newly created federal Department of the Environment, where he remained on staff until 1989.
After retirement he remained an active participant in polar research, and also became a key mentor within the Students on Ice educational program. He continued to participate in expeditions for Students on Ice well into his tenth decade, his last being to Greenland only two months before his death.
Master of Clare College 1993-2003.
Born in 1934 the son of Alexander Hepple (Leader of the South African Labour Party), and Josephine Zwarenstein.
Educated at Jeppe High School for Boys (1947–1951), the University of the Witwatersrand (B.A.,1954, LLB cum laude and Society of Advocates Prize for Best Law Graduate, 1957), and the University of Cambridge (LLB, 1966, LLD 1993).
1959-1962 - lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand
1962-1963 - Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar
Active as a student leader against racial segregation in the universities, worked as an adviser and assistant in the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and participated in the underground struggle against apartheid. He acted as legal adviser to Nelson Mandela in his trial for incitement in 1962, and was arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, with leaders of the African National Congress and Communist Party on 11 July 1963. He was held in 90-day detention without trial. He was discharged on 30 October 1963 and managed to escape to England in November 1963.
1964-1966 - graduate student at Clare College
1966-1968 - lectureship in law at the University of Nottingham
1969-1976 - Fellow of Clare College and university lecturer
1976 - Professor of Social and Labour Law at the University of Kent
1977-1982 (full time), 1974-1977 (part time), 1982–1993 - chairman of Industrial Tribunals
1982-1993 - Professor of English Law at University College London
1989-1993 - Dean and Head of the Faculty of Laws
In 1993 he was elected Master of Clare College and was appointed Professor of Law at the University (1995–2001)
2003 - elected as a Fellow of the British Academy
Awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Kent, and the Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy, and was Hon. Professor of Law in the University of Cape Town (1999–2006).
2004 - Knight Bachelor for services to legal studies
2013 - Awarded the first Labour Law Research Network Award for Distinguished Contributions to Labour Law
2014 - received the South African Order of Luthuli (Gold) for his exceptional contribution to the struggle for democracy and human rights
Barrister and Bencher of Gray's Inn
1996 - appointed Queen's Counsel (hon)
1994-1999 - served on the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on Legal Education and Conduct
2000-2002 - served on the Legal Services Panel
2007-2009 - Judge and senior vice-president of the UN Administrative Tribunal
2000-2003 - member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, chair from 2003 to 2007
2000-2002 - Chaired the council's Working Parties on Genetics and human behaviour and The forensic use of bioinformation (2006–2007)
1986-1990 - member of the Commission for Racial Equality
1989-2007 - trustee of the Canon Collins Educational Trust for South Africa
2001-2007 - Chair of the European Roma Rights Centre
2007-2014 - Chair of the Equal Rights Trust
2012 - elected Hon President of the Industrial Law Society
2014 - elected Hon President of the Equal Rights Trust
He died on 21 August 2015
Born in 1927, the daughter of Edgar Walter Savours (civil engineer) and Margaret (a poet and teacher)
1949 - Bachelor's degree with honours from the Royal Holloway College, University of London
Studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned a diploma in French civilization in 1950
1950-1951 - Studied art at the Burslem School of Art
1952-1954 – worked as a library assistant at the University of Aberdeen
1954-1966 - assistant librarian and curator of manuscripts at the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University
1970 - assistant keeper at the National Maritime Museum
1973 - appointed custodian of manuscripts
1977 – retirement in 1987 - in charge of the Arctic gallery
1955 - member of the Cambridge Spitsbergen Physiological Expedition
1960 – member of the Australian National Antarctic Expedition
1960-1961 - honorary research fellow at the Australian National University
1978-1980 - member of the council of the Royal Geographical Society
She was also a member of the council and a vice president of the Hakluyt Society (from 2002) and of the Society for Nautical Research
Educated at Eton, the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz and New College, Oxford, also spending some time at Princeton University.
Joined the diplomatic service in 1927 and served in several countries in a junior role, including Iran, Hungary, Japan and Turkey.
He was posted to Tokyo in November 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbour. Ten days after his arrival, when the Ambassador was at the American Embassy, he "was pressed to accept an ideographic Declaration of War".
Whilst serving in Turkey he employed a nursemaid to look after his children. She was a mistress of the Nazi spy Elyesa Bazna and Busk went on to employ Bazna as a valet. He introduced Bazna to Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the ambassador, who went on to employ Bazna as chauffeur and valet from November 1943 to March 1944.
1946-1948 - Served in Iraq.
1952-1956 – He was Britain's Ambassador to Ethiopia (1952-56); Finland (1958-60); and Venezuela (1962-64)
He was a notable mountaineer climbing in all the countries where he was posted.
The Royal Geographical Society, of which he was honorary vice-president, awards an annual Busk Medal named in his honour.