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Humphrey Prideaux 1648-1724 was a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford and Dean of Norwich. In 1721 he presented Clare College with the Orientalia of his Library, about 134 volumes. His son, Edmund Prideaux, was admitted as Fellow-Commoner at Clare in 1711 and was the artist remembered for his colourful drawing of the College buildings in 1714.

Joseph Senior (1911) studied Classics, was awarded the Greene Cup in 1915 and Owst Prize for Classics (for finishing in top 6 across the University in Part II). He was killed in action in 1917 serving with the Royal Flying Corps.

William Clifford Jones was from the Rhondda Valley and attended LLandovery College before coming to Clare in 1933 "to read law and play rugby". He was awarded three Blues and thirteen Caps for Wales whom he captained in 1938.

After leaving Clare he qualified as a solicitor.
During the Second World War he served as a major with the Control Commission.
He later gave up being a lawyer and joined his father in the family business.

He came back to Welsh rugby in 1957 as a selector, was chairman of the committee for a period, and served until 1978.
He played a significant part in the establishment of the national coaching scheme and the squad training system which underpinned the success of the Welsh team in the late 1960s and the 70s.
In 1979 he was awarded the OBE.1980-81 was President of the Welsh Rugby Union.

Obituary: The Clare Association Annual, 1990-91, pg. 72

Peter Edgley was at Clare 1945-1948.

Born on 17 April 1889 the son of P. Keen.
School - Charterhouse

Admitted to Clare on 22 July 1908.
Read law and entered Inner Temple but death of his father led to him becoming head of the family firm of granary keepers and lighterman in Rotherhithe.
Became Chairman and President of the Model Railway Club.
Died in 1973.

Obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1973-4, p. 70

Smith was a College servant between 1919 and 1966. He died on 18 November 1967.

3rd son of Orlando, banker, of Stamford, Lincolnshire
School - Cheltenham College

Admitted as a pensioner at St John's College, 12 June 1862

Matriculated from Clare College in 1863
Migrated to Clare, 15 April 1863
Scholar, 1863
B.A. 1866; M.A. 1869

Assistant Master at Wakefield School, Yorks., 1866
Ordained Deacon, 1871
Ordained priest (Gloucester and Bristol) 1872
Curate of Stroud, Gloucs., 1871-7
Curate of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 1879-84
Vicar of Great Gransden, Hunts., 1884-1914

Author, Lays of Great Gransden; A History of Great Gransden

Died 19 June 1914 at Great Gransden

Master of Clare College, 1713-26

Born in 1666 the son of Thomas Grigg of Middlesex
School - St Paul's School, London

Admitted as a pensioner at Jesus College on 24 September 1684
Matriculated 1685
Rustat scholar
B.A. 1688/9; M.A. 1697
D.D. (Com. Reg.) 1717
Fellow, 1696-1714

Master of Clare College, 1713-26
He was nominated by the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor as the votes of the society were equally divided

Vice-Chancellor, 1716-7

Ordained priest (Lincoln) 08 June 1707
Vicar of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1705
Vicar of All Saints, Cambridge, 1707-17
Rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1717-26
Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset

Died on 9 April 1726

Matriculated at Clare, 1883.

Born in Aberystwyth the son the the revd Joshua
Schools - Leamington College and Llandovery, Carms

Admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College on 29 January 1853
Matriculated at MIchaelmas 1853
B.A. 1857; M.A. 1867

1883 - Became a Fellow of Clare College
1889 - Fellow of the Royal Society

1860 - Appointed Secretary to the British Consul at Rome
1861 - Joined the Geological Survey of England, 1861
1873 - 1917 - Woodwardian Professor of Geology

President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1879-80 and 1889-90
1891 - Lyell medal of the Geological Society
1892 - President of the Philosophical Society

Died 9 June 1917

Matriculated at Clare College in 1944.

A Bursary has been set up at Clare in his memory as the Howard Bursary for scientists with preference for those reading Chemistry.