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Born in Hammesmith, the second son of George William Chibnall, bakery owner, and his wife Kate.
Educated at St Paul's School and gained an Exhibition to Clare College where he matriculated in 1912.

He began the Natural Sciences Tripos Part I but this was cut short by the advent of War.
He applied for a commission, and spent three years serving mainly in the Army Service Corps. In 1917 he applied to join the Royal Flying Corps and learned to fly in Cairo; he gained his wings in 1918.

In 1919 he was taken on by Professor H.B. Baker to do research for the newly instituted PhD at Imperial College, but he later switched to study the nitrogenous constituents of green leaves with Professor S.B. Schryver, whom he succeeded in 1929. He gained his PhD in 1921.

After a year's work at the Chelsea Physic Garden, he was awarded a travelling scholarship to the USA. He secured a place with the leading expert on plant proteins, T.B. Osborne, at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

In 1924 he joined the laboratory of Jack Drummond at University College London. In 1929 Cibnall took over the Chair of Bichemistry at Imperial College. He was appointed the second Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University in 1943. He resigned in 1949 since he felt it was a role more suited to a medically qualified biochemist.

His notable students included Fred Sanger, who was a double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. After he was awarded a PhD in 1943 he joined Chibnall's lab. Chibnall suggested Sanger work on methods of identifying the terminal amino acid of Insulin. Chibnall then declined to have his name on Sanger's paper on the grounds that Sanger should get all the credit.

He married his cousin Helen Isabel Cicely Chibnall (known as Cicely) in 1931. Cicely died in 1936, giving birth to their second daughter.
In 1947 Chibnall married Marjorie McCallum Morgan, whom he had met after corresponding about one of his historical interests. They had a daughter and a son. Marjorie died in Sheffield on 23 June 2012, aged 96.

Chibnall died in Cambridge on 10 January 1988.

Admitted to Clare College in 1936.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action and awarded the Victoria Cross.

Master of Clare College, 1762-1781

Born on 28 August 1705 in Cambridge. Son of a French refugee, a barber by trade.
School – Merchant Taylors, London.

Admitted sizar at Clare on 23 June 1721.
B.A. 1724/5
M.A. 1728
D.D. 1761
Made an Exeter Fellow in 1727, Diggons Fellow in 1728 and Clare Fellow, 1730-1743
Senior proctor, 1745-6
Vice-Chancellor, 1762-3

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 24 September 1727; priest, 24 May, 1730.
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1742-47.
Rector of Fornham All Saints', Suffolk , 1747.
Rector of Westley, Suffolk, 1749 .
Preb. of Peterborough, 1761-81.
Preb. of St Paul's, London, 1770-81 .
Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, 1774-81 .

Died 25 October 1781.

Son of John Copley of Nether Hall (admitted Fellow Commoner of Clare in 1678). Born at Nether Hall, Doncaster. Baptised 13 January 1684/85

Admitted Fellow Commoner at Clare, 19 June 1703.
2 December 1711 married Eleanor Shaw.

Died c. 1782.

Born in London in 1662
20 October 1680 admitted as a sizar at Clare College
Matriculated in 1681
B.A. 1684/5
M.A. 1691 (Lit. Reg.)
D.D. 1717 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow of Clare College 1686-1723
Senior proctor 1709-10
A popular tutor and ardent supporter of the Newtonian system

Vicar of Quy-cum-Stow, Cambridgeshire, 1709
Prebend of Worcester, 1717-23
Chaplain to George I.

Died 28 July 1723

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 18 January 1652/3
Matriculated in 1653
B.A. 1656/7
M.A. 1660
D.D. 1679 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow until 1722
Senior Proctor, 1676-77
Obtained a mandate for the Mastership of Clare College 1678 but too late and Samuel Blythe was elected master.

Ordained Deacon (Lincoln), 10 March 1660
Priest, Peterborough, 22 September 1667
Rector of Blo Norton, Norfolk, 1660-1722

“In 1674 he preached before the King at Newmarket in a Long Periwig and Holland Sleeves, then the Dress of Gentlemen; which so scandalised even Charles II, that He ordered the Duke of Monmouth, then Chancellor of the University, to put the Statutes in execution relating to the Decency of Apparel” [Wardale, J.R. College Histories: Clare College]
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1683

Died May 1722

Born on 27 June 1832
Son of Henry of Needham Market, Suffolk
School – Ipswich

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 11 June 1851
Matriculated Michaelmas 1851
B.A. 1855; M.A. 1858
Fellow, 1855
Dean
Proctor, 1862

Ordained deacon (Ely) 1856; priest (London) 1857; Curate of Christ Church, St Pancras, London, 1856-9. Vicar of Litlington, Cambs., 1866-7. Rector of Rotherhithe with St Paul's, Globe Street, London, 1867-1907
Lady Margaret Preacher, 1869
Rural Dean of Southwark, 1875-87
Hon. Canon of Rochester, 1893-1905
Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral, 1905-24

Lived latterly at 4, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge

Author of History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe [There is a copy of this in the Archive search room 942.659 BEC inscribed by the author 'Presented to Clare College Library by Canon Beck June 1907')

Died on 17 October 1924 in Cambridge

Born on 28 January 1807, the son of John Bailey
School - Merchant Taylors’

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1826, Scholar
B.A. (31st Wrangler) 1830
M.A. 1833
B.D. 1852

Fellow, 1831
Proctor, 1847

Ordained a deacon (Rochester Litt. dim. from Ely) on 17 June 1832; priest (Carlisle) on 21 June 1834.
Chaplain-in-Ordinary at Hampton Court Palace, 1849-65; vacated his rooms at the Palace in 1865.
Rector of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, 1858-71

Died on 3 August 1871

Matriculated at Clare, 1879.

Born in November 1859 in Denmark Hill, South London, the son of James Sharp, a Slate Merchant who made money in the massive expansion of Victorian London and retired early rather than pass the business to his sons. Sharp went to Uppingham School (noted for its music) before starting a maths degree at Clare College, Cambridge in 1879. In Oct 1882 he left for Adelaide, Australia where he stayed for nearly ten years, working for five years as Associate to the Chief Justice of South Australia and then as a partner in a private venture, the Adelaide College of Music. There, despite his lack of formal musical training, he taught Singing and Music Theory, using spare time to write compositions of his own and to conduct the Adelaide Philharmonia Society (see Hugh Anderson 'Virtue in a Wilderness' Folk Music Journal 1994).

In 1893 Sharp took a part-time music post at Ludgrove School, a prep school in North London where he had freedom to create concert programmes with new material for choirs. He stayed there till 1910, combining it with several other jobs, notably as Principal of the (private) Hampstead Conservatoire of Music (1896-1905) and as Music Tutor to the Royal Household (1904-7). He had meanwhile married Constance Birch in 1893 and they had 4 children, settling in Hampstead. He joined the Folk Song Society in 1901 and began collecting Folk Songs in 1903. He proceeded to spend the rest of his life collecting with nearly 3,000 songs collected in England and over 1,500 on his four collecting trips to the Appalachian Mountains in USA (1915-18). He died in 1924 and most of his collection was housed and curated in the Cecil Sharp House in London by his daugher Joan. This later became the Vaughan William Memorial Library. See biography by A. H. Fox Strangways and M. Karpeles (rev. ed. 1967).

Born in 1852 the son of H.M. Harris of Plymouth
School – Plymouth Grammar
Admitted to Clare College on 9 June 1870 as a pensioner
BA 3rd Wrangler 1874
MA 1877

Fellow 1875-88 and 1892-1904
Librarian from 1898-1902
Hon. Fellow 1909-41

Fellow British Academy 1927
Hon. LittD Dublin
Hon. LLD Haverford, USA
Hon. D.Theol. Leyden, Holland
Hon. LLD Birmingham
Hon. DD Glasgow
Professor of New Testament Greek: Sch: Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA , 1882-86
Returned to Cambridge, 1893
University Lecturer in Palaeography, 1893-1903

Travelled extensively in the East in search of manuscripts and, as a result of his visits to Mount Sinai
Had two narrow escapes from drowning, his ship being torpedoed on both occasions, in the War of 1914-18

Moved to Manchester, 1918
Curator of Eastern, John Rylands Library 1918-25
Professor of Biblical Languages: Sch: Haverford College USA , 1886-92
Professor of Theology: at Sch: University of Leyden Leyden, Holland, 1903-04
Director of studies: Friends' Settlement for Social and Religious Study Woodbrooke, near Birmingham, 1903-18

Notice to marry, July 1880, at the Friends Meeting House in Plymouth, Helen Balkwill
Died in Selly Oak, Birmingham, on 1 March 1941

J Rendel Harris was one of the most prolific and influential New Testament scholars of his time and was responsible for bringing to light hitherto lost early Christian writings and gathered major collections of Syriac manuscripts and Greek papyri, especially the Syriac Bible. It was Dr Harris who provided Dr Agnes Smith Lewis and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson (twin sisters in Cambridge with interest in ancient Syriac writings) with the contacts in Egypt that enabled them to visit the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mt. Sinai. This collaboration led to the discovery of the Sinaitic Palimpsest.