Born in Cambridge in 1802.
Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 20 November 1819
Matriculated Michaelmas 1820
B.A. (30th Wrangler) 1824
M.A. 1827
Fellow, 1829-71
Chaplain of St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1841-60
Died in 1871
Born in Birkenhead in 1902
School - Birkenhead School
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1924)
Demonstrator at Manchester University
1936 - Fellow of Clare College
1960 - elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960
1969 - Professor Emeritus
His major work was a three-volume treatise on tissue culture, "Cells and Tissue in Culture: methods, biology and physiology" (1965).
He created oil paintings detailing landscapes, mainly in Cambridgeshire and Mid Wales
He designed the Fellows' Garden in Clare College
Died - April 2001
Born at Old Warden, Bedfordshire in 1795 the eldest son of the Revd Edmund, Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 1 July 1814
Matriculated Michaelmas 1814
B.A. 1818; M.A. 1821
Ordained deacon, 1819; priest, 1821
Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire (succeeding his father), 1839-64
Founder of the Bedford Library; Hon. Secretary and Vice-President
Died 7 August 1864, aged 68
Matriculated at Clare, 1960.
Alfred Young was born on 16 April, 1873 in Widnes, Lancashire; his family moved to Bournemouth in 1879 and after being educated at home when to Monkton Combe School near Bath. He won a scholarship to Clare College and was admitted in 1892; excellent oarsman; began to undertake research in his third year which prevented him from achieving a very high position in the Tripos and so he was placed tenth Wrangler in 1895; he published his first paper in 1899, "The irreducible concomitants of any number of binary quartics" and in 1900 he introduced "young tableaus" the method for which he is best remembered; appointed as lecturer at Selwyn College in 1901 and Fellow at Clare in 1905 where he also became Bursar; married Edith Clara in 1907; ordained in 1908 and became a Curate at Christ Church, Hastings; also awarded a Sc. D from Cambridge; then parish priest at Birdbrook, Essex where he lived for the rest of his life, combining successfully the work of a parish priest with his researches in the theory of the algebra of groups. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934; he died on 15 December 1940. See obituary in Clare Association Annual 1947, pp. 99-101
Admitted to Clare in October 1903 to read mathematics (First class).
Elected into a Fellowship in 1907 and was awarded the Smith's prize in 1908.
1910 married Ethel Marienne Harvey piper. They had two sons who also attended Clare as did their grandson.
WWI - served as Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery and as Assistant Proof and Experimental Officer at Woolwich Arsenal. His services were recognised with the award of an MBE.
After lecturing in maths at Liverpool and then back in Cambridge he was commissioned as a Scientific Officer at Woolwich Arsenal in 1914. From 1919-1924 he continued scientific work in Cambridge and then changed direction to deal with administration of Clare College. He became Bursar, Financial Tutor and Steward and also dealt with the College Archives. This was the period when the College was run mainly by three men, Sir Henry Thirkill, Dr. W. Telfer and William Harrison who were known as the "Holy Trinity". Harrison retired in 1949 but continued his research in the Archives publishing books on the history of the College.
1929 - 1949 served as Bursar.
Obituary: The Clare Association Annual 1969, pp. 56-57.
Master of Clare College, 1815-1856
Born in February 1775 at Sutton Coldfield. The son of William, Master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 30 April 1793
B.A. (18th Wrangler; aegrotat) 1797
M.A. 1800
B.D. 1808
D.D. 1816
Elected to a Fellowship in 1799
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough in 1800 and as Priest in 1801
Presented to the College living at Litlington in 1812
May 1815 promoted to the combined livings of Fornham All Saints and Westley. He resigned from these livings upon his election as Master in July 1815
Vice-Chancellor, 1817-18 and 1832-3
President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1843-44
He married Anne, the daughter of the Rev. T.V. Gould, his predecessor in the living at Westley
Died 4 January 1856
Master of Clare College 1620-1645 (ejected); 1660 (restored but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham)
B.A. from Clare c.1602-1603
M.A. 1606
B.D. 1613
D.D. 1621
Fellow
Elected Master of Clare, 31 December 1620. Ejected in 1645. Restored in 1660 but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham
Vice-Chancellor, 1623-24
Vicar of Hendon, Middlesex, 1611-26
Rector of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, London, 1624-44 (ejected)
Vicar of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1625. Sequestered, 1643
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1625-62
Archdeacon of London, 1626-62
Prebendary of York, 1628-62
Chaplain to James, Marquis of Hamilton
Died c. September 1662
Master of Clare College, 1654-1660
Born in Deane, Bedfordshire in 1612. Son of Thomas, Rector of Deane. Baptised on 18 October 1612
School - Upper Deane
Admitted at Emmanuel College on 13 September 1629
Matriculated in 1629
B.A. 1633/4
M.A. 1637
B.D. from Sidney, 1644
D.D. from Clare, 1655
Fellow of Sidney, 1638
Master of Clare, 1654-60, and 1661-78
Vice-Chancellor, 1655-56, 1656-57, 1662
Ordained deacon at Peterborough, 10 March 1638/39
Rector of Offord Cluny, Huntingdonshire, 1654-78
Prebendary of York, 1662
Archdeacon of Bedford, 1667-78
Died in Cambridge on 22 November 1678
Fellow of Clare College 1698-1723.