The original College Statutes were granted by Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady Clare, in 1359.
The Governing Body was known at one time as the Congregation as well as "Meetings of the Master and Fellows"; there is some overlap with meetings of one of the precursors of the Council , known as "The Master and Fellows in College"
Churchill alumnus
Agnes Lewis and Maggie Gibson (both nee Smith) born in 1843 were eccentric twin sisters who undertook remarkable journeys to extend their Semitic scholarship. They later lived at Castlebrae House, Chesterton Road, which later became one of the hostels on the Colony site owned by Clare College.
This exhibition is arranged once every two years, more recently by Dr. Peter Knewstubb
Cavaleri Partership
Matriculated at Clare, 1938-9, killed in raid on St Nagine.
Son of Richard Bayliss, entered Clare in 1964 to read medicine; BA 1967; participated in amateur dramatics and was a member of the "Clare Revue" and later the "Manic Depressives Revue" at the Middlesex Hospital
Undergraduate at Clare 1935-1938; elected Honorary Fellow 1983; father of Dr Christopher Bayliss (Clare 1964)
'Tripos' verses were Latin (or occasionally Greek) verses composed for distribution, usually as printed sheets, at academic ceremonies in Cambridge from 1565 (at the latest) until 1894. Most of the earliest have as their subjects serious academic questions which were formally debated as part of the ceremonies; many others are humorous or satirical; some are simply on whatever topic happened to take the author's fancy.
The verses were part of the University's ceremony of graduation. Printed on the back of the verses are the names of the successful candidates for a baccalaureate degree.