Matriculated at Clare, 1901, graduated 1904. Member of Clare College Boat Club.
(1913-1992). Matriculated at Clare, 1933.
(1907-2004). Attended Oundle School, matriculated at Clare, 1925. He studied engineering and was later a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. Later awarded CBE and Knight of the Order of St John. He died on 12th March 2004.
Graduated MA in 1961, completed his PhD 1963 and became a Fellow of the College in 1970.
(1922-2004), matriculated at Clare, 1941. Read Classics, 1941-42, then English 1946-48. A noted authority on Ibsen, he was made Fellow of Clare in 1940, and later Professor of Modern and Comparative Drama at Bristol.
Matriculated at Clare, 1872.
Matriculated at Clare, 1950, to study Law.
(1859-1924), matriculated at Clare, 1879. Born in November 1859 in Denmark Hill, South London, the son of James Sharp, a Slate Merchant who made money in the massive expansion of Victorian London and retired early rather than pass the business to his sons. Sharp went to Uppingham School (noted for its music) before starting a maths degree at Clare College, Cambridge in 1879. In Oct 1882 he left for Adelaide, Australia where he stayed for nearly ten years, working for five years as Associate to the Chief Justice of South Australia and then as a partner in a private venture, the Adelaide College of Music. There, despite his lack of formal musical training, he taught Singing and Music Theory, using spare time to write compositions of his own and to conduct the Adelaide Philharmonia Society (see Hugh Anderson 'Virtue in a Wilderness' Folk Music Journal 1994).
In 1893 Sharp took a part-time music post at Ludgrove School, a prep school in North London where he had freedom to create concert programmes with new material for choirs. He stayed there till 1910, combining it with several other jobs, notably as Principal of the (private) Hampstead Conservatoire of Music (1896-1905) and as Music Tutor to the Royal Household (1904-7). He had meanwhile married Constance Birch in 1893 and they had 4 children, settling in Hampstead. He joined the Folk Song Society in 1901 and began collecting Folk Songs in 1903. He proceeded to spend the rest of his life collecting with nearly 3,000 songs collected in England and over 1,500 on his four collecting trips to the Appalachian Mountains in USA (1915-18). He died in 1924 and most of his collection was housed and curated in the Cecil Sharp House in London by his daugher Joan. This later became the Vaughan William Memorial Library. See biography by A. H. Fox Strangways and M. Karpeles (rev. ed. 1967).
Matriculated at Clare, 1861.
Rev. Frank Innes Wane (1889-1969), Clare 1907, lived at St Colomba's Rectory, Nairn, Scotland in the 1930s; he gave a fine collection of bird books to the College about 15 years before his death in 1969 and these were deposited in the University Library in 1971. After his death the College received a bequest of silver