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.
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
Reunion dinners are arranged by the Development Office and a photograph is taken at each event.
Edward Leigh (1913-1998)
Working Dates: 1946 -1983
Edward Leigh was one of the few professional photographers to obtain a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society as well as a Fellowship of the Institute of British Photographers (the professional photographers' own body).
His photographic career spanned over 50 years. Before WW2 he worked as a fashion photographer and a stills cameraman for Fox Film Studios, later 20th Century Fox. During the war his printing skills were employed by RAF Oakington to process at great speed the aerial recognisance photographs which were assembled into the mosaic maps used by Bomber Command.
After the war Edward set up his own studio on Kings Parade in the centre of Cambridge, living on the premises. Edward did a great deal of work for University Departments and Cambridge Colleges, Including matriculation and graduation photos, portraits of fellows and visiting Royals. Many of his architectural photographs have been used for decades in books on Cambridge. He was a much sought after industrial photographer, skilled in the use of lighting and good at composition.
When Edward retired, his son John Edward Leigh took over the business, still at 22 Derby Road, Cambridge, which he listed as specialising in advertising photography, for a short period around 1983-85, before the business finally closed.
Working for Edward Leigh at different times were Doug Rattle, Peter Lofts and Frank Bird.
Basil Brown, matriculated at Clare, 1943 and was a member of the Argus Club; read Natural Sciences; died in July 2002
Born in Hammersmith, the second son of George William Chibnall, bakery owner, and Kate (née) Butler
School - St Paul's
Admitted to Clare in 1912 as an exhibitioner
He started off studying for Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, but this was cut short by the advent of war. He quickly applied for a commission, and spent three years serving mainly in the Army Service Corps. In 1917 he applied to join the Royal Flying Corps and learned to fly in Cairo; he gained his wings in 1918.
In 1919 Chibnall was taken on by Professor H.B. Baker to do research for the newly instituted PhD at Imperial College, but he later switched to study the nitrogenous constituents of green leaves with Professor S. B. Schryver, whom he succeeded in 1929. He gained his PhD in 1921.
After a year's work at the Chelsea Physic Garden, Chibnall was awarded a travelling scholarship to the USA.
1924 - joined the laboratory of Jack Drummond at UCL
1929 - took over the Chair of Bichemistry at Imperial College
1943 - appointed the second Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University
1949 - resigned as he felt it was a role more suited to a medically qualified biochemist
His notable students included Fred Sanger, who was a double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
1988 - he died in Cambridge