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Born on 9 December 1667, the son of Josiah, Rector of Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire
School - Tamworth
Admitted as a sizar at Clare on 30 June 1686
Matriculated - 1687
B.A. 1689/90
M.A. 1693
Fellow, 1691

Sept 1693 - Ordained deacon (Lichfield)
Chaplain to Bishop Moore, of Norwich
1697-98 - Rector of Drayton, Norfolk
1698-1703 - Vicar of Lowestoft and Kessingland, Suffolk

1702-1710 - Succeeded Newton as Lucasian Professor and one of the first to popularise the Newtonian theories
1707 - Boyle Lecturer

30 Oct 1710 - Banished from the University for an essay which expounded Arian doctrines
Went to London and lectured there and at Bristol, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells on various subjects, comprising meteors, eclipses, and earthquakes, connecting them more or less with the fulfilment of biblical prophecies

Advocated a number of theories of which the most famous was that the Tartars were the lost tribes of XISR

Married Ruth, daughter of Revd George Antrobus, Master of Tamworth School in 1699

Died on 22 August 1752, aged 84

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 5 June 1863
Matriculated Michaelmas 1863; exhibitioner; B.A. (8th Wrangler) 1867; M.A. 1870
Fellow, 1868

Ordained deacon (Ely) 1871; priest, 1874
Lecturer at St Bees College, and Curate of St Bees, Cumberland, 1871-5
Vicar of Everton with Tetworth, Beds., 1876-1903
Died 5 May 5 1903

Matriculated at Clare, 1926, BA Medicine (ord) in 1929.

Noted radiotherapist and specialist in cancer diagnostics. Professor of Radiotherapy, University of London and Director of Radiotherapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Born in Hammersmith, the second son of George William Chibnall, bakery owner, and Kate (née) Butler

School - St Paul's
Admitted to Clare in 1912 as an exhibitioner

He started off studying for Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, but this was cut short by the advent of war. He quickly applied for a commission, and spent three years serving mainly in the Army Service Corps. In 1917 he applied to join the Royal Flying Corps and learned to fly in Cairo; he gained his wings in 1918.

In 1919 Chibnall was taken on by Professor H.B. Baker to do research for the newly instituted PhD at Imperial College, but he later switched to study the nitrogenous constituents of green leaves with Professor S. B. Schryver, whom he succeeded in 1929. He gained his PhD in 1921.

After a year's work at the Chelsea Physic Garden, Chibnall was awarded a travelling scholarship to the USA.

1924 - joined the laboratory of Jack Drummond at UCL
1929 - took over the Chair of Bichemistry at Imperial College
1943 - appointed the second Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University
1949 - resigned as he felt it was a role more suited to a medically qualified biochemist

His notable students included Fred Sanger, who was a double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

1988 - he died in Cambridge

Politician and diplomat. For 31 years he served as a Labour Member of Parliament. He was also British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Educated at Haileybury and Clare College where he was an athlete, and president of the Cambridge Union Society. Two years at Yale followed, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law.

Basil Brown, matriculated at Clare, 1943 and was a member of the Argus Club; read Natural Sciences; died in July 2002

Born to Maha Vidane Mudaliar Gabriel de Sampayo in Colombo on 10 September 1855

Educated at St Benedict's College (former Kottanchina Seminary) before gaining a Queen's scholarship to study at the Colombo Academy (now Royal College, Colombo)
He excelled in school, winning the Form Prize, Prizes for Latin and Maths, and the Turnour Prize
He won the English University Scholarship to the University of Cambridge and study at Clare graduating in 1881 with a LLB
In later years he would name his mansion at Silversmith Street Clareden after Clare College
1881 - called to the Bar from the Middle Temple

On returning to Ceylon he started his legal practice in Colombo. He also served as a lecturer and examiner at the newly established Ceylon Law College, and was co-editor of the Ceylon Law Reports

In 1903 he was sworn in as a King's Counsel and was appointed as a Commissioner of Assize

In 1915 he was appointed a Puisne Justice and was made a senior Puisne Justice in 1922
He functioned as Acting Chief Justice on several occasions
In 1924 was made Knight Bachelor by the King

A devoted Christian, he was the first President of the Catholic Union of Ceylon. The Pope conferred on him the award of Knight Commander in the Holy Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Arbitrator, barrister and hereditary peer.

School - Charterhouse
Graduated from Clare College in 1961
MA 1968

Inns of Court School of Law
1954-1964 - served in the Royal Naval Reserve, seeing active service 1956-8 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant.

Has worked for over 40 years as an international arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes
Inherited the title Baron Hacking from his father in 1971.

Robert Grumbold was the Master mason in charge of designing and building the North (hall) range of Old Court. He was related to Thomas Grumbold who was the Master mason who designed and built Clare bridge and who is mentioned in the College building accounts CCAD/7/1/1/1. There is a memorial plaque to Robert Grumbold in the graveyard of St. Boltoph's church.

Matriculated at Clare, 1929. During his time at Clare (1929-1932) he was a member of the Music Society and he kept copies of all the programmes of concerts in which he played. He also kept copies of programmes of various other music concerts in Cambridge that he attended and it is these programmes that were bound together into the volume in this series.

Following his War service he took an LLB at Cornell University but later settled in Los Angeles working in investment banking. In 1975, he and his wife returned to Cambridge where he once again became actively involved in music-making.