Born in Uldale, Cumberland, the son of Joseph Cape
Admitted pensioner to Clare College in 1814
Matriculated in 1815
B.A. 1819 (4th Wrangler)
M.A. 1822
Made a Fellow in 1820
1946-1866 - Rector of Birdbrook, Essex
Died 1866 in Birdbrook
Master of Clare College, 1557-1560
Master of Clare College, 1560-1571.
Born 1521 in Beneden, Kent the son of William Leeds and Elizabeth Vinall.
School – King’s College, Canterbury.
M.A. 1545; LL.D 1568.
Master of Clare College 1562-71
1548-1564 - Rector of Little Gransden
1549-1553 - Rector of Newton
1552 - Rector of Elm & Emneth, Norfolk
1559-1584 - Prebendary of Ely
1560-1561 - Precentor of Lichfield
1560 - Admitted advocate
Commissary and Vicar-general to the Bishop of Ely
1560-1581 - Rector of Cottenham
1573-1580 - Rector of Croxton
Rector of Snailwell & Littleport
Master in Chancery
Benefactor of Clare College and Emmanuel College
Died 1588 in Croxton, where he was Lord of the manor
Admitted as a sizar to Clare College in 1633
B.A. 1637/8; M.A. 1641; LL.D 1648
Fellow of Clare College
Admitted advocate of Doctor’s Commons, London 1648
Died 1656
Born on 11 April 1613/14 in Hoo, Kent
Son of Peter Gunning, vicar of Hoo, Kent
School - King’s Canterbury
Matriculated as a sizar from Clare College 1629
B.A. 1632/3, M.A. 1636, D.D. Corpus Christi College 1660, B.D. Oxford 1646
Made a Fellow of Corpus Christi College 1633 -1644 ejected
University preacher 1641
Lady Margaret Professor 1660-61
Master of Corpus Christi College by mandate 1661 (February–June)
Regius Professor of Divinity 1661-74
Master of St John’s College 1661-69
Chaplain to the King 1660
Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland, 1660-70
Rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northants, 1660–70
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1660-69
Bishop of Chichester, 1670-75
Bishop of Ely, 1675-84
Died 6 July 1684
Born in Cambridge on 5 May 1542, the eldest son of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520/21–1598), and his first wife, Mary (c.1520–1544).
Educated at home by tutors
Matriculated Fellow-Commoner from Trinity, Michaelmas 1558
M.A. 1571
Admitted at Gray's Inn
In 1561 Thomas's father sent him abroad to complete his education. Once he reached Paris he began to enjoy life and neglect his studies. His father accused him of being 'slothful in keeping his bed, rash in expenses, careless in his apparel, an unordinate lover of dice and cards; in study soon weary, in game never'. He seems to have amended his ways and completed his grand tour by visiting Antwerp, Speyer, Heidelberg, and Frankfurt, before returning home early in 1563 after an absence of nearly two years.
In 1564 he married Dorothy Neville, daughter of Lord Latimer of Belvoir Castle. They had thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters. Dorothy died in 1609 and a year later Cecil married Frances Smith, a thirty-year-old widow, less than half his age and younger than almost all his children. They had one daughter, who died in infancy.
He was MP for Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1562, 1571, 1572; for Lincolnshire, 1584-86; for Northamptonshire in 1592
In 1569 he helped to suppress the revolt of the northern earls.
In 1573 he volunteered to help the Scottish regent, Morton, storm Edinburgh Castle.
In 1575 he was knighted by the queen during a tournament at Kenilworth.
In 1585 when the Earl of Leicester was sent with an army to help the Dutch, Thomas Cecil was made captain of horse and governor of the English-controlled port of Brill, although he soon resigned on grounds of ill health.
In July 1588, when the Spanish Armada invaded he was made colonel in an army set up to defend 'Her Majesty's person'.
In 1601 as colonel-general of the London foot he helped his half-brother Robert Cecil smash the rebellion of the Earl of Essex.
In 1590 he had become the lord of the manor of Wimbledon and there built an impressive mansion. Over the next 10 years he entertained the Queen here on several occasions.
He was given a commission as Lord President of York (or President of the Council of the North) with special orders to hunt down Catholic recusants.
In 1598 on the death of his father he became second Baron Burghley.
For his part in crushing the Essex revolt he received the Garter.
When James I became king, he was first made a member of the Privy Council.
In 1605 he was made Earl of Exeter, at the same time as Robert was created Earl of Salisbury.
In 1617 his wife Frances was accused of plotting to poison Lady Lake, wife of one of the secretaries of state. The scandal became the talk of London. It was a very complicated affair, and the evidence was said to fill 17,000 sheets of paper. The Earl appealed to the King, who took such an interest in the case that he presided in person in Star Chamber and then went down to Wimbledon to test the chief witnesses. Finally he pronounced the Countess innocent and sentenced Lady Lake and her husband to the Tower for life.
Cecil died, probably at Wimbledon, on 7 February 1623.
Born at Lackford, Suffolk in c.1564, the son of John Borage
School, Bury St Edmunds
Admitted pensioner (age 17) at Caius on 6 November 1581
Matriculated in 1581. Probably afterwards scholar at Clare
Admitted at the Middle Temple, December 1584
Founded a Fellowship at Clare, by will, 1636-7. He made over a rentcharge of £15 a year for the foundation of a Fellowship confined to natives of Norfolk and tenable for five years from the time of taking the MA degree.
Born in 1615, the son of John Philpott, Somerset herald and his wife Susan
Admitted to Clare College in 1634 as a Fellow Commoner
M.A. 1636 incorporated in that degree at Oxford University 1640
Died 1682
Born on 11 October 1877 in Willington, Durham
Son of Archibald William and Anne Elliott, of Springfield House, Willington, Durham
He was educated at Durham Grammar School
Admitted as a sub-sizar at Trinity College in 1896
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904; M.D. 1908 (Natural Science Tripos, Part I, 1st Class 1900; Part II, 1st Class (1901))
Fellow Clare College 1908
Fellow of the Royal Society 1913
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1915
Lecturer University College Hospital 1913
Served in the First World War as Consulting Physician: B.E.F.; Colonel: Army Medical Service 1917; DSO 1918. Mentioned in Dispatches twice
Professor of Medicine, London University
Died in 1961
Matriculated as a pensioner from Clare College Lent term 1577/8
B.A. from Magdalene College 1580/1
M.A. 1584
Probably Fellow of Clare College
Proctor 1599