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Dr David Hartley is a chartered engineer in computing and information technology, who has combined many years as a senior manager in the
university environment with a wide range of consulting and advisory positions for government, education, research and industry. He worked in the Computer Laboratory on the early pioneering computers making contributions in programming languages, operating systems and other services. He was Director of the University Computing Service from 1970 to 1994, and was responsible for the University’s broadband facility linking all Colleges and Departments throughout Cambridge.

From 1994 to 1997 he was Chief Executive of the company developing the JANET national network, and from 1997 to 2002 was Executive Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. He was then Steward of Clare College for three years, and worked with Toby Wilkinson to reform alumni relations into the force that it is today. He was President of the British Computer Society in millennium year 1999-2000.

Among external roles, he has advised many bodies including government departments. In the 1980’s he was a member of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, and the Prime Minister’s Information Technology Advisory Panel, also spending a sabbatical year at the Department of Industry.

MA, Mathematics, 1959
Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing, 1959
PhD, Computer Science, 1963
FBCS, CEng, CITP
Medal of Merits, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland, 1984

Donald Hearn served as Bursar of Clare from 2001 until 2013.

Prior to his appointment as Bursar, Donald was Finance Director at the Royal Horticultural Society for fifteen years. Following his retirement from Clare he continues to be actively involved with a number of charities, University Committees and pension schemes.

School - Wakefield School
Admitted to Clare College on 22 April 1898
Matriculated Michaelmas term 1898
Scholar and Exhibitioner
BA 3rd Wrangler, 1901
Mathematical Tripos Part II, 1st Class (1902)
MA 1905

Born in London
Educated at George Heriot's School and University of Edinburgh (M.A. Hons. 1933, PhD 1943)
Further study at Clare (B.A. 1935)

1957 - first Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham. He stayed at the university till his retirement in 1978
1974 - 1975 - President of the Royal Statistical Society
1984 - awarded its Guy Medal in Gold (following a silver medal in 1947)
1980 - Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980

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.

John Edmund Misaubin was born in London and matricuated at Clare in 1735. He was the son of John (Jean) Misaubin who was a learned physician in London and the subject of the article. Murdered in 1740 by foot pads in London.

Grew up in Retie, Belgium, and attended secondary school at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Mol
He read sinology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1991)
He went on to study Chinese philosophy at National Taiwan University before moving to Clare College where he obtained a Ph.D. in Oriental studies (1997)
He was a research fellow at Oxford (Wolfson College) and taught at the University of Arizona before returning to Cambridge in 2002
He served as Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 2006 to 2012, and has been a long-serving trustee of the Needham Research Institute
In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy
He is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University

Born in London, the son of engineer Alfred Pippard. He was educated at Clifton College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1941.

He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 to 1982, and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which he was the first president.

Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, and was awarded the University Botany Prize (1962) and a double first class honours degree (1963). He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1967-73), where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology.

Baptised on 22 August 1734 at Denton in Lincolnshire. He was the only son of Colonel William Welby of Denton and his wife Catherine.

Educated at Eton School, before being admitted to Clare College as a Fellow Commoner in 1753 and then at the Middle Temple in 1756.

Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1802 to 1806. He also served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1796 to 1797.