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Known to friends as Sebastian and also known as Jack Sprott.

Born at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams

School - Felsted School
Clare College where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles

He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools
In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group
He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova

After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham, where he eventually became professor of philosophy

He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk

Mr Parsons retired from the office of Kitchen Manager in the autumn of 1949 after serving the College for more than 50 years. At the Clare Association Dinner, held in London on 10 July 1950, Mr Parsons was the chief guest, and about 200 old members of the College were present to convey their good wishes in person.

Peter Ackroyd is a biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

Was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2006.

Professor Susan Alcock is an American archaeologist specialising in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

She was educated at Yale University (1979-1983) and then studied Classics at Clare College (first class BA in 1985; MA 1989; PhD 1989).
She was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018.
She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics & Letters.

She was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2012.

Born in Ealing in 1930
Attended Marlborough School and was admitted to Clare College on 23 January 1950 where he read land economy
He was also a member of the Footlights drama club and drew cartoons for the student newspaper Varsity

He was partner of Kemsley, Whiteley and Ferris, chartered surveyors
He was appointed Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (F.R.I.C.S.)
He was appointed Fellow, Chartered Auctioneers' and Estate Agents Insitute (F.A.I.)

Born in 1889 in Leicester to Joseph Haines, a schoolmaster, and Lucy (nee Horsley).

Frank started his education at St Saviour’s School and in 1900 moved to The Wyggeston School where he studied until 1907.
He won an organ scholarship to Clare College where he was also a singer (baritone).
He obtained a B.A. Mus, Bac. (Cantab) and was made sub-organist of King’s College, Cambridge in 1912.

He became a Lieutenant in 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and was Killed in Action on 16.6.1917.
He is on the Arras Memorial (Bay 5), France and also the Syston Memorial as his parents were living at The Morlands, Syston at the time of his death.

Son of J.P. Hooper (Electrical Engineer) of London

Admitted to Clare on 14 July 1905

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Lipstein earned his Abitur from Goethe-Gymnasium in 1927. He enrolled at the University of Grenoble, and later finished his studies at the University of Berlin. He was of Jewish descent and emigrated to England in 1934. He earned his doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1936.
During the war he spent some time in an internment camp as an enemy alien. His parents perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

After the war he became a Fellow of Clare College and served as Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1976.

He was a renowned specialist in Roman law and conflict of laws within private international law and public international law and pioneer in comparative law.

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