Given to the College in the will of Dr. Henry Hornsby in 1517. Hornby (BD 1489/ 90) was a Fellow of Clare College and afterwards of Michaelhouse, before becoming Master of Peterhouse in 1509; he was one of the circle of Lady Margaret, mother of Henry VII,
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.
26 March 1743 - 11 July 1815
Master of Clare College, 1781-1815
Born on 26 March 1743 at Little Stukeley, the third son of Revd James Torkington, Rector of King's Ripton and Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire.
Admitted pensioner at Clare College on 11 July 1761
Matriculated Michaelmas 1761
B.A. 1766; M.A. 1769; B.D. 1778; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1785.
Fellow, 1768; Master, 1781-1815.
Vice-Chancellor, 1783-4.
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 25 May 1766; priest (Peterborough) 31 March 1771
Rector of Teigh, Rutland, 1787
Vicar of Stapleford, Leicestershire
Rector of Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire until 1815
Died at Little Stukeley on 11 July 1815