, 1364 (combined with rectory farm from 1848; "College Farm" sold 1920) {Great Gransden Wood: 293} Whole or part still owned by College {} Bursary reference numbers
New Sports ground from 1931 after the one at Barton Road was sold in 1930; part of site was sold to University Press, 1961) {113, 263 and 343}
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
Worliche benefaction
The Wheatham estate in Liss was bequeathed to Clare College by Joseph Diggons in 1657, to endow the Diggons Foundation
This house in the market place at Tamworth came to the College as part of the benefcation of Dr. Robert Greene in 1743. It was sold by the College in 1876.
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18 September 1920 – 21 March 2006
Read economics and law at Clare College and was later made an Honorary Fellow.
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5 October 1949 - present
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.
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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.