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Born in London in June 1728 the son of John Parkhurst of Catesby Priory, Northamptonshire
School - Rugby

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 28 June 1745
Matriculated 1745
B.A. 1748/9
M.A. 1752
Fellow 1751-52
Ordained deacon (Ely) 23 Feb 1752 and priest 24 Sept 1752
Biblical lexicographer and anti-Newtonian

Died on 21 Feb 1797

Humphrey Prideaux 1648-1724 was a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford and Dean of Norwich. In 1721 he presented Clare College with the Orientalia of his Library, about 134 volumes. His son, Edmund Prideaux, was admitted as Fellow-Commoner at Clare in 1711 and was the artist remembered for his colourful drawing of the College buildings in 1714.

Admitted to Clare in 1923, interested in aviation and car racing.

Japanese businessman and official. He was a confidant of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and served as a liaison between Japanese cabinet and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers during the American occupation of Japan.

Shirasu attended Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School and graduated in 1921. Afterwards he went to England to further his studies at Cambridge University at the urging of his father. By his own account, Shirasu was a troublemaker in his youth and him studying abroad had been arranged by his father as a form of "exile."

Admitted to Clare College in April 1923 to read medieval history. His best friend at Cambridge was Robert Cecil Byng, nephew of Edmund Byng, 6th Earl of Strafford, and later the 7th Earl. Shirasu adopted the style and manners of an English gentleman. He also cultivated a passion for cars, acquiring both a Bentley 3 Litre and a Bugatti Type 35. During winter break in 1925 he made a tour of the European continent together with Byng in his Bentley, driving down to Gibraltar and back.

Born and raised in Lahore into a Punjabi family of the Khatri community

He graduated from Government College, Lahore (now Government College University), in 1967, earning the President's Gold Medal for achieving the highest academic distinction among more than 50,000 students of the University of the Punjab

Completed a Master of Arts degree in Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge in 1970
1971 to 1972, he was a PhD research student at Clare College
In 2011, Clare College named him Alumnus of the Year and awarded him an Honorary Eric Lane Fellowship

In 1988 he founded the English Language newspaper 'The Friday Times' in Pakistan

Son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton

Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent
Read Natural Sciences at Clare College
BA 1961
MA 1964

In 1967 Cambridge awarded him a PhD degree, for a thesis entitled 'The Measurement of Paleotemperatures in the Quaternary Era'.

Apart from periods abroad as Visiting Professor or Research Associate, Shackleton's entire scientific career was spent at Cambridge. He became Ad hominem Professor in 1991, in the Department of Earth Sciences, working in the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research.

Born on 13 May 1930 in Chipstead
School - Marlborough College

Admitted to Clare in 1948 to study medicine

Born in Corby, Lincolnshire, the son of the Revd Francis

Admitted to Clare College on 11 May 1767 as a sizar
B.A. 1771
M.A. 1774

Rector of High Halden, Kent, 1780-1806
Vicar of Bethersden

Died 30 May 1806

Reunion dinners are arranged by the Development Office and a photograph is taken at each event.

Peter Edgley was at Clare 1945-1948.