Born in Uldale, Cumberland, the son of Joseph Cape
Admitted pensioner to Clare College in 1814
Matriculated in 1815
B.A. 1819 (4th Wrangler)
M.A. 1822
Made a Fellow in 1820
1946-1866 - Rector of Birdbrook, Essex
Died 1866 in Birdbrook
Master of Clare College, 1557-1560
Born in 1617 in Aller, Somerset, the son of Ralph
Educated by his step-father Dr Stoughton
Admitted as a pensioner to Emmanuel College 1632, matriculated 1632
B.A. 1635/6, M.A. 1639, B.D. 1646, D.D. 1651
Made Fellow of Emmanuel 1639
Master of Clare College 1645-54
Regius Professor of Hebrew 1645-88
Rector of North Cadbury, Somerset 1650
Master of Christ’s College 1654-88
Rector of Toft, Cambridgeshire, 1656
Vicar of Great Wilbraham 1656
Rector of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, 1662
Prebendary of Gloucester 1678
Author of Intellectual system.
Father of John born in 1672
Died 26 June 1688 buried in Christ’s College Chapel
First son of John Mapletoft, Rector of Byfield, Northamptonshire. Baptised there on 17 November 1722
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 7 July 1739
Matriculated in 1740 ; B.A. 1743/4 ; M.A. 1748
Ordained deacon (Norwich) September 1745; priest (Peterborough) 25 September 1748
Chaplain to the East India Company, 1750
Died at Fulta, 1756, a fugitive from Calcutta
Born 1778 in Market Overton, Rutland
Admitted to Clare College as a pensioner on 30 January 1796, Matriculated 1797
B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804
Fellow 1803-12
Founder of the Hinman scholarship 1850
Ordained deacon 1801, priest Peterborough 1803
Curate Market Overton 1801-03
Curate Cottesmore, Rutland 1803–05
Died 15 August 1859 in Market Overton, Rutland
Born in London the son of John and Susannah of Wardour Street, London
Admitted as a pensioner to Clare College on 13 June 1799
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1799
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806, D.D. 1818
Ordained deacon 1803, priest 1805. Vicar of Honington, Lincs. 1805-67
Married Harriet Brooke of Low Leyton, Essex at Knaresborough, Yorkshire. Father of Henry A. Coles born 1825.
Died on 24 October 1867
Born in Irchester, Northants
Matriculated in 1671 and admitted as a sizar at Clare College in 1671
B.A. 1674/5, M.A. 1678
Ordained deacon Peterborough 1676, made a Fellow 1678
Born at Lackford, Suffolk in c.1564, the son of John Borage
School, Bury St Edmunds
Admitted pensioner (age 17) at Caius on 6 November 1581
Matriculated in 1581. Probably afterwards scholar at Clare
Admitted at the Middle Temple, December 1584
Founded a Fellowship at Clare, by will, 1636-7. He made over a rentcharge of £15 a year for the foundation of a Fellowship confined to natives of Norfolk and tenable for five years from the time of taking the MA degree.
Born on 11 October 1877 in Willington, Durham
Son of Archibald William and Anne Elliott, of Springfield House, Willington, Durham
He was educated at Durham Grammar School
Admitted as a sub-sizar at Trinity College in 1896
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904; M.D. 1908 (Natural Science Tripos, Part I, 1st Class 1900; Part II, 1st Class (1901))
Fellow Clare College 1908
Fellow of the Royal Society 1913
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1915
Lecturer University College Hospital 1913
Served in the First World War as Consulting Physician: B.E.F.; Colonel: Army Medical Service 1917; DSO 1918. Mentioned in Dispatches twice
Professor of Medicine, London University
Died in 1961
Career
Born on 25 December 1890 in St Lawrence, Isle of Wight, the son of the Revd Robert William Odell, rector of St Lawrence, and his wife, Mary Margaret.
He was educated at Brighton College and at the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College, London, where he studied geology.
First World War - he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and was wounded three times.
In 1917 he married Gwladys Mona (d. 1977), daughter of Robert Jones, rector of Gyffin, north Wales. They had one son.
After the war Odell embarked on a career in the petroleum and mining industries.
1922-25 - geologist with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
1927-30 - consultant in Canada
He then moved into academia.
1928-1930 - lecturer in geology and tutor at Harvard University
1931-1940 - research student and lecturer at Cambridge, where he stayed on as a Fellow Commoner and supervisor of studies at Clare College
His research for his PhD (awarded in 1940) investigated the geology, glaciology, and geomorphology of north-east Greenland and northern Labrador.
1940–42 he served as a major in the Bengal Sappers and Miners.
After the Second World War he took up various appointments at universities in Canada, New Zealand, and Pakistan. He lectured at McGill, was visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (1948–9), and was professor of geology at the University of Otago (1950–56) and at Peshawar University (1960–62).
When he retired he returned to Clare College and in 1983, at the age of ninety-two, was made an Honorary Fellow, an event which much pleased him.
Mountaineering
Although he published several important academic papers on the geology of the Himalayas, and other mountain regions it was in mountaineering that he made his name.
He began climbing at the age of 13 in the Lake District and soon gained wide climbing experience in Britain and the Alps. He participated in the Oxford University Spitsbergen expedition in 1921 and led the Merton College Arctic expedition in 1923.
In 1924 Odell was a member of the Everest expedition. He spent two weeks living above 23,000 ft and twice climbed to 26,800 ft and higher, without supplemental oxygen. On 8 June 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine attempted to summit Mount Everest via the Northeast Ridge route. Odell reported seeing them at 12:50 p.m. climbing one of the major "steps" on the North-East ridge, and "going strongly for the top." There is no evidence to prove they reached the summit, or that they ascended above the major second step. They never returned and died on the mountain.
There followed several visits for geological research, mountaineering, and exploration in the Canadian Rockies (1927–47), north Labrador (1931), north-east Greenland (1933), and the St Elias Mountains in Yukon and Alaska (1949 and 1977).
An ice route he pioneered in the White Mountains bears his name, Odell Gully, and two mountains, a lake, and a glacier are also named after him.
Odell's greatest mountaineering achievement was the first ascent of Nanda Devi (25,695 feet) in 1936. He and H.W. Tilman reached the summit, which for fourteen years remained the highest peak climbed.
In 1938 he joined Tilman in an attempt on Everest, but deep powder snow made the last 1,500 ft impossible to climb.
He was a founder member of the Himalayan Club and an honorary member of the Alpine Club and similar clubs in North America, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Norway.
In 1944 he received the Livingstone gold medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and, unusually, a star in the constellation Lyra was named after him.
He died suddenly on 21 February 1987 at his home, 5 Dean Court, Holbrook Road, Cambridge, and his body was donated to medical science at the Cambridge anatomy department.
Obituary Clare Association Annual, 1986/7 p.60