Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), born in Exeter in 1834 and travelled across Europe as a child before being admitted as Pensioner to Clare College in 1853. He was a prolific writer.
Basil Brown, matriculated at Clare, 1943 and was a member of the Argus Club; read Natural Sciences; died in July 2002
Chibnall came up to Clare in 1912
David Finney (1934), scholar in Mathematics
Fellow of Clare, Director of the University Botanic Garden, 1951 - 1973 (1906-1986)
(1934-2017)
Robert Grumbold was the Master mason in charge of designing and building the North (hall) range of Old Court. He was related to Thomas Grumbold who was the Master mason who designed and built Clare bridge and who is mentioned in the College building accounts CCAD/7/1/1/1. There is a memorial plaque to Robert Grumbold in the graveyard of St. Boltoph's church.
Robert Hargreaves 1880-1968
William John Harrison (1884-1969) was awarded a scholarship to Dulwich in1900 and was then admitted as scholar at Clare College in 1904 and became Fellow in 1907 after getting a First in Mathematics. The next year he was one of the three joint winners of the Smith Prize for a an essay on Mathematics. 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. He died in 1969.
Rev. Canon David Frederick Cox Hawkins (1917-1997) at Clifton College 1930-35, Clare 1935 (in 1st May Boat 1938)