Born on 7 March 1903 in New South Wales, Australia
Educated at Sidney University
Admitted to Clare College on 13 July 1927
Attended Marlborough School
Admitted to Clare College on 11 January 1932
1933 Economics Tripos Part I 3rd class
1934 Informal exam
1935 Geography Tripos Part II 2:2
Matriculated at Clare in 1965. Noted art historian - an authority on John Constable - Ron Parkinson was Assistant Curator at the V&A for many years.
Fellow, 1923-34, Honorary Fellow 1956-74. Antarctic explorer (with Shackleton and Scott). First Secretary General of the Faculties (Cambridge).
Born in Tewkesbury, the son of Joseph Edward Priestley, headmaster of Tewkesbury grammar school.
Educated at his father's school and taught there for a year before reading geology at University College, Bristol (1905–07).
He had completed his second year of studies when he enlisted as a geologist for Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition (1907–09) to Antarctica. He was part of the advance team that laid the food and fuel depots for Shackleton's nearly successful attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1909. He returned to the Antarctic as a member of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), after being recruited by Scott when the Terra Nova arrived in Sydney.
Served in the British Army during World War I and was awarded the Military Cross in March 1919.
His research and thesis on glaciers in the Antarctic earned him a BA (Research) at Cambridge in 1920.
In 1920 he co-founded, with fellow Terra Nova expedition member Frank Debenham, the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge
In 1922 he was elected a Fellow of Clare College.
In 1924 he joined the university's administrative staff, becoming concurrently assistant registrar, secretary to the board of research studies and secretary-general of the faculties.
From the 1930s until his retirement, he held a series of academic and government administrative posts in Australia and England.
1935-1938 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
1938-1952 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
1947 - Knighted for Services to Education
During this period he developed an acquaintance with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, providing him with rooms for discussions and lectures.
After retirement in 1952, he served as Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service (1953-1955), as deputy Director of the former Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (later called the British Antarctic Survey) (1955-1958), and as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1956).
He revisited Antarctica in 1956 and 1959 and in the latter year was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for whom he was president from 1961 to 1963.
Admitted to Clare College on 7 October 1876
Matriculated Michaelmas 1876
B.A. 1880; M.A. and LL.M. 1883; LL.D. 1889
Admitted solicitor, March 1884 and practised in Birmingham, 1890-1931
Died 27 March 1931, aged 73, at Edgbaston and is buried at Lodge Hill.
Brother of William Showell Rogers (admitted to Clare in 1873).
Admitted to Clare College on 23 January 1950, to study Law.
Born in 1930 in Dover and attended Epsom School.
Admitted to Clare College om 11 October 1948 to study Natural Sciences.
Born in 1836 the son of John, M.D. of Ferns, Co. Wexford, Ireland
School - Diocesan, Wexford and at Trinity College, Dublin (Gold medal; M.A.)
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare, 15 Oct 1861
Admitted at Caius, 5 Dec 1862, but returned to Clare
B.A. (12th Wrangler and 1st in 1st Class, Moral Science Tripos) 1865; M.A. 1868
Fellow of Clare, 1866; Dean, 1875-84
Junior Proctor, 1879-80
Ordained deacon (Ely), 1872; priest, 1873
Vicar of Litlington, Cambridgeshire, 1884-92
1873 - Married Eliza M. Paula, daughter of Jeremiah Tully, solicitor of Eyre Square, Galway, and The Grove, Tuam
Author, theological
Died May 13, 1907, at Cambridge
Matriculated at Clare, 1960.
Admitted pensioner at Clare College, 25 May, 1687
B.A. 1690/1
M.A. 1694
Exeter Fellow, 1693-1710.
Ordained priest (Lincoln) 3 June 1694
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1708-43
Vicar of Gamlingay, 1710
Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely
Died on 19 February 1742/3, aged 72; buried at Gransden