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Master of Clare College, 1929-1939

Born on 29 October 1871 and was the son of Daniel Wilson of Melbourne, Australia
School - Trinity College, Melbourne.

Admitted at Clare College on 10 October 1892 and matriculated Michaelmas 1892
B.A. (5th Wrangler ) 1895; (Maths. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class, 1896); M.A. 1899
Fellow, 1897-1929
Master, 1929-39
Junior Proctor, 1905-06
M.P. for the University, 1929-35

Vice-Chancellor, 1935-37
Secretary of the University Financial Board, 1920-6
Treasurer, 1926-29
Hon. D.C.L., Durham, 1937

Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, Unattached List, T.F.; General Staff Officer, War Office; O.B.E.; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; mentioned twice in Secretary of State's List for 'valuable services')

19 December 1899 married Margaret Mabel, eldest daughter of the Revd John Edward Parker Bartlett, Rector of Barnham Broom, Norfolk .

Of The River House, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire in 1952

Died on 13 July 1958

Peter Edgley was at Clare 1945-1948.

Born on 17 April 1889 the son of P. Keen.
School - Charterhouse

Admitted to Clare on 22 July 1908.
Read law and entered Inner Temple but death of his father led to him becoming head of the family firm of granary keepers and lighterman in Rotherhithe.
Became Chairman and President of the Model Railway Club.
Died in 1973.

Obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1973-4, p. 70

Pam Wadham worked in the Tutorial Office from 1971-1991.

Born in Wisbech and attended Gresham School.
Matriculated at Clare, 1933. Read Law.

Richard Bennett matriculated in 1920 and graduated from Clare in 1924. He studied Natural Sciences.
He was the nephew of the well-known author Arnold Bennett and he later donated the c.600 letters that he received from his uncle to the UL. Richard Bennett was also a member of the 'Boot club', a college group founded through a mutual interest in 'the Boot' pub in Dullingham (see Volume 1). After leaving the College he held posts at Lever Brothers and later ICI.

Born in Hong Kong the son of G.M. Dalety
School - Charterhouse

Matriculated at Clare, 1946 to study Law
1947 Law Qual 2 2nd class
1948 Law Tripos II 2:2
1949 LLB 2:1

Died 2004

Brother of Euan Campbell Dalgety who matriculated in 1943 and who was killed while in the RAF

Matriculated at Clare, 1966.

Matriculated at Clare, 1883.

Born in Aberystwyth the son the the revd Joshua
Schools - Leamington College and Llandovery, Carms

Admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College on 29 January 1853
Matriculated at MIchaelmas 1853
B.A. 1857; M.A. 1867

1883 - Became a Fellow of Clare College
1889 - Fellow of the Royal Society

1860 - Appointed Secretary to the British Consul at Rome
1861 - Joined the Geological Survey of England, 1861
1873 - 1917 - Woodwardian Professor of Geology

President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1879-80 and 1889-90
1891 - Lyell medal of the Geological Society
1892 - President of the Philosophical Society

Died 9 June 1917

Fellow of Clare College, 1991-2009, ecological geneticist.

Born in Middlesex in 1954, he developed an interest in insects at an early age. In particular Majerus was known for his work on Lepidoptera and Coccinellidae.
Dr Majerus spent two years at the University of Keele before becoming a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Genetics and the University of Cambridge in 1980 where he remained until 1987.
He was a University Lecturer 1987-2001
Teaching Fellow of Clare College, 1991-2009
Reader in Evolution, 2001-2009
Professor of Evolution, 2006-2009

Dr Majerus was also a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and President of the Amateur Entomologists' Society, 2006-09.