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William Horbury is a Church of England priest and former Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at Cambridge University

He graduated BA from Oriel College, Oxford in 1964 and entered Westcott House, Cambridge for ordination training in the same year. He was ordained deacon in 1969 and priest in 1970, having become a Fellow of Clare College in 1968. He completed his Cambridge PhD thesis in 1971.

1972-78 - he served as Rector of Great and Little Gransden in the Diocese of Ely
1978 he became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and is now a Life Fellow
In 1984 he became a lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge
In 1998 he became Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies

1990-2014 - he served as honorary priest in charge of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge

He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1997

Born on 7 February 1914 in Assam the son of G.T. Lloyd of Andover, Hants
School - Marlborough
Admitted to Clare in 1933 and worked at Bletchley Park during WWII

In 1937 he entered the Consular Service
1948 he transferred to the Foreign Office
1965 - made a CBE
He retired from the Foreign Office in 1974

Admitted to Clare College in 1972, Fellow 1982, Lecturer 1988, Director of Studies 1992, Senior Tutor 2000-2006.

Early modern historian specialising in the colonial history of India. She is a retired Professor in Indian History and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford.

Emeritus Fellow of Clare College
Elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020

The Revd Canon William Telfer MC ()[1] was an English clergyman and academic,

Born in Rochester, Kent, the son of a schoolmaster
Graduated from Clare College in 1908 and was ordained and became the Vicar of All Saints Church in Rotherhithe
During the First World War he served as a chaplain and was awarded the Military Cross in the 1916

1921 - became a Fellow of Clare College
He specialised in early Christian studies

1921 - Dean of Clare College
1944-47 - Ely Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University
1947-1956 - Master of Selwyn College

Born on 29 May 1729 the son of William Dodd vicar of Bourne, Lincolnshire
Admited as a sizar at Clare College on 2 October 1745
Matriculated in 1746
B.A. 1749/50
M.A. 1759
LL.D. 1766

Ordained deacon (Ely) 18 Oct 1751; priest (London) 17 Jun 1753
Lecturer at West Ham, and elsewhere in London
Chaplain at the Magdalen House 1758
Chaplain to the King 1763-74
Preb. of Brecon, 1763
Rector of Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, with Chalgrave, 1772
Vicar of Wing, Buckinghamshire, 1775-77
A popular preacher in London

For forging a bond on his patron Lord Chesterfield, he was convicted and hanged at Tyburn
Dr Johnson keenly interested himself in attempting to secure his reprieve

Statistician and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Director of the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Statistics from 1954 to 1984 and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society. He was a pioneer in the development of systematic monitoring of drugs for detection of adverse reactions.

He was educated at Lymm Grammar School and Manchester Grammar School, where he won a Cambridge scholarship. He read mathematics and statistics at Clare College, Cambridge from 1934 to 1938. He was awarded a postgraduate scholarship for statistical work in agriculture.

Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies

Most of Simon Franklin’s research has been concerned with the history and culture of early Russia and of Russia in the Early Modern period. In particular, he has focussed on aspects of the cultural significances of the written word across a broad spectrum of genres and forms and technologies: handwritten and printed, graffiti, inscribed objects, ephemera.

Apart from teaching and research, he has served in numerous university and college roles, including periods as Head of the School of Arts and Humanities, as Senior Tutor of Clare College, and as a Trustee of the European University in St Petersburg, and of the Pushkin House Trust in London. In 2007 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and he is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Charles Edward Garrad (1876-1958) Clare 1894, Fellow 1900-1906 and William Rolfe Garrad (1881-1951) Clare 1903

Both brothers were missionaries in Mandalay

Fellow of Clare, Director of the University Botanic Garden, 1951-1973.