The Clare Association was founded in 1923 and remained independent for many years, arranging annual dinners, usually in London, and producing a regular alumni publication, the Clare Association Annual (CAA). The committee functions of the Association were absorbed by the College Development Office in the mid-2000s, when an Alumni Council was set up. The Council comprises representatives for each matriculation year tasked with liaising between the members of their year and the Development Office, and a Fellow of the College still acts as Secretary of the Association.
Founded in 1951 (?by John Newton and John Northam?), the Clare College Picture Guild arranged exhibitions of paintings and other work by artists in the former Latimer Room (now the MCR). The Guild also purchased pieces of artwork for the College and these were available to be loaned to College members.
Agnes Lewis and Maggie Gibson (both nee Smith) born in 1843 were eccentric twin sisters who undertook remarkable journeys to extend their Semitic scholarship. They later lived at Castlebrae House, Chesterton Road, which later became one of the hostels on the Colony site owned by Clare College.
Some original material was provided and copied by the former Archivist, Susy Johnson in 1993.
Matriculated at Clare, 1938-9, killed in raid on St Nagine.
Baron Baker of Windrush, scientist and Professor of Mechanical Sciences, (1901-1985)
Clare 1928, Read English with Mansfield Forbes, member of the Dilettanti Society; later Ulster MP and Grand Master of Gloucester Grand lodge
Hugh Carey lived in Cambridge as a child and knew Mansfield Forbes (1889-1936, Clare 1909) as "Uncle Manny". His father, Gordon V Carey (Caius 1908), was a close friend of Forbes. As part of his research for the biography of Forbes, Hugh Carey collected material from friends and colleagues of Forbes during the late 1970s and early 1980s but died in 1984 after passing proofs of his book for press.
Elected Master of Clare College in 1993 and retired as Master in 2003.
Cheng Ean Lim (1890-1982) was at Clare in 1911; from Penang and one of the early Chinese students at Clare