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Worliche benefaction

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This is a new section created for the papers which relate to the management of College properties mainly dating from the 1970s onwards. Some of these papers have been housed with the College Solicitors (Mills & Reeves) or the estate agents (Bidwells) for

Site of new College sports ground from 1931 after the one at Barton Road was sold in 1930; part of site was sold to University Press, 1961 (Formerly Bursary refs 113, 263 and 343).

This property was given to the College on 17th March 1599 by Elizabeth Taylor, widow of Robert Taylor (possibly the same Robert Taylor who matriculated at Clare in 1546). The rent from this property along with 20½ acres of land in Girton, Madingley and Im

Given to the College in the will of Dr. Henry Hornsby in 1517. Hornby (BD 1489/ 90) was a Fellow of Clare College and afterwards of Michaelhouse, before becoming Master of Peterhouse in 1509; he was one of the circle of Lady Margaret, mother of Henry VII,

Read economics and law at Clare College and was later made an Honorary Fellow.

Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

Was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2006.

Born in Bramford in Suffolk, the son of John Acton.

Admitted as a Fellow-Commoner at Clare on 30 January 1700/01.
MP for Orford, Suffolk, 1722, 1729.
High Sheriff for Suffolk, 1739.
Died in 1744 leaving £100 towards building the College Chapel.

Professor Susan Alcock is an American archaeologist specialising in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

She was educated at Yale University (1979-1983) and then studied Classics at Clare College (first class BA in 1985; MA 1989; PhD 1989).
She was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018.
She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics & Letters.

She was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2012.