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Master of Clare College (1726-1736).

Son of Robert and Margaret Morgan and baptised at St Paul's, Covent Garden on 24 September 1678
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 12 October 1693
Matriculated in 1693
B.A. 1697/8
M.A. 1701
D.D. 1728 (Com. Reg.)
Fellow, 1700-20
Master of Clare, 1726-36
Vice-Chancellor, 1732-3

Ordained priest (Lincoln) 11 June 1704
Chaplain to Bishop Moore of Ely
Rector of Whitton-cum-Thurston, Suffolk, 1714
Rector of Glemsford, Suffolk, 1718-36

Died on 30 April 1736
On his death he left all of his books to the library at Clare.

Originally from Barnsley, William Kelsey came to Clare in 1914 and is pictured in the 1914 matriculation photograph. He received his commission on his 19th birthday, serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He was grievously wounded in France on 14 July 1916, later dying of his injuries at the Empire Hospital in London. His name is included on the College War Memorial plaque in the Chapel.

John Rutter (1945-), Clare 1964, was director of Music at Clare from 1975-1979. He later formed the Cambridge Singers and continued to compose music and carols. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours for 2007 (in December 2006).

Born in 1615, the son of John Philpott, Somerset herald and his wife Susan

Admitted to Clare College in 1634 as a Fellow Commoner
M.A. 1636 incorporated in that degree at Oxford University 1640
Died 1682

Attended school in Heidelberg.

Is on the War Memorial.

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 Unley, Adelaide, Australia, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife, Catherine Jane Nicholas.

Educated at Adelaide High School, then studied Chemistry and Geology at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney, graduating in 1915.
In 1916 he went to South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland, to work as a chemist Department of Explosives Supply.
He returned to Australia in December 1918.

He won an Exhibition of 1851 scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1919, where he studied petrology and completed his PhD in 1922.
From 1923 he worked for Cambridge University, first as demonstrator in petrology, and then lecturer in petrology in 1929.
In 1931 he was appointed as the first Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology.
Most of the remainder of his life was spent in England.

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and served as their Vice President 1949/50. He won the Society's Royal Medal in 1967.

1948-51 President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain.
1949-50 President of the Geological Society.
1957 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He died at home in Cambridge on 24 January 1973.