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John Millard Newton, MA 1961, PhD 1963, Fellow 1970.

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.

Admitted to Clare College in 1936.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action and awarded the Victoria Cross.

Master of Clare College, 1762-1781

Born on 28 August 1705 in Cambridge. Son of a French refugee, a barber by trade.
School – Merchant Taylors, London.

Admitted sizar at Clare on 23 June 1721.
B.A. 1724/5
M.A. 1728
D.D. 1761
Made an Exeter Fellow in 1727, Diggons Fellow in 1728 and Clare Fellow, 1730-1743
Senior proctor, 1745-6
Vice-Chancellor, 1762-3

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 24 September 1727; priest, 24 May, 1730.
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1742-47.
Rector of Fornham All Saints', Suffolk , 1747.
Rector of Westley, Suffolk, 1749 .
Preb. of Peterborough, 1761-81.
Preb. of St Paul's, London, 1770-81 .
Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, 1774-81 .

Died 25 October 1781.

Son of John Copley of Nether Hall (admitted Fellow Commoner of Clare in 1678). Born at Nether Hall, Doncaster. Baptised 13 January 1684/85

Admitted Fellow Commoner at Clare, 19 June 1703.
2 December 1711 married Eleanor Shaw.

Died c. 1782.

Born in London in 1662
20 October 1680 admitted as a sizar at Clare College
Matriculated in 1681
B.A. 1684/5
M.A. 1691 (Lit. Reg.)
D.D. 1717 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow of Clare College 1686-1723
Senior proctor 1709-10
A popular tutor and ardent supporter of the Newtonian system

Vicar of Quy-cum-Stow, Cambridgeshire, 1709
Prebend of Worcester, 1717-23
Chaplain to George I.

Died 28 July 1723

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 18 January 1652/3
Matriculated in 1653
B.A. 1656/7
M.A. 1660
D.D. 1679 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow until 1722
Senior Proctor, 1676-77
Obtained a mandate for the Mastership of Clare College 1678 but too late and Samuel Blythe was elected master.

Ordained Deacon (Lincoln), 10 March 1660
Priest, Peterborough, 22 September 1667
Rector of Blo Norton, Norfolk, 1660-1722

“In 1674 he preached before the King at Newmarket in a Long Periwig and Holland Sleeves, then the Dress of Gentlemen; which so scandalised even Charles II, that He ordered the Duke of Monmouth, then Chancellor of the University, to put the Statutes in execution relating to the Decency of Apparel” [Wardale, J.R. College Histories: Clare College]
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1683

Died May 1722

Born on 27 June 1832
Son of Henry of Needham Market, Suffolk
School – Ipswich

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 11 June 1851
Matriculated Michaelmas 1851
B.A. 1855; M.A. 1858
Fellow, 1855
Dean
Proctor, 1862

Ordained deacon (Ely) 1856; priest (London) 1857; Curate of Christ Church, St Pancras, London, 1856-9. Vicar of Litlington, Cambs., 1866-7. Rector of Rotherhithe with St Paul's, Globe Street, London, 1867-1907
Lady Margaret Preacher, 1869
Rural Dean of Southwark, 1875-87
Hon. Canon of Rochester, 1893-1905
Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral, 1905-24

Lived latterly at 4, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge

Author of History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe [There is a copy of this in the Archive search room 942.659 BEC inscribed by the author 'Presented to Clare College Library by Canon Beck June 1907')

Died on 17 October 1924 in Cambridge

Born on 28 January 1807, the son of John Bailey
School - Merchant Taylors’

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1826, Scholar
B.A. (31st Wrangler) 1830
M.A. 1833
B.D. 1852

Fellow, 1831
Proctor, 1847

Ordained a deacon (Rochester Litt. dim. from Ely) on 17 June 1832; priest (Carlisle) on 21 June 1834.
Chaplain-in-Ordinary at Hampton Court Palace, 1849-65; vacated his rooms at the Palace in 1865.
Rector of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, 1858-71

Died on 3 August 1871