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Master of Clare College, 1929-1939

Born on 29 October 1871 and was the son of Daniel Wilson of Melbourne, Australia
School - Trinity College, Melbourne.

Admitted at Clare College on 10 October 1892 and matriculated Michaelmas 1892
B.A. (5th Wrangler ) 1895; (Maths. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class, 1896); M.A. 1899
Fellow, 1897-1929
Master, 1929-39
Junior Proctor, 1905-06
M.P. for the University, 1929-35

Vice-Chancellor, 1935-37
Secretary of the University Financial Board, 1920-6
Treasurer, 1926-29
Hon. D.C.L., Durham, 1937

Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, Unattached List, T.F.; General Staff Officer, War Office; O.B.E.; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; mentioned twice in Secretary of State's List for 'valuable services')

19 December 1899 married Margaret Mabel, eldest daughter of the Revd John Edward Parker Bartlett, Rector of Barnham Broom, Norfolk .

Of The River House, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire in 1952

Died on 13 July 1958

1992 made an Hon. Fellow of Clare College
High Commissioner to Pakistan, 1989-94

Born on 17 April 1889 the son of P. Keen.
School - Charterhouse

Admitted to Clare on 22 July 1908.
Read law and entered Inner Temple but death of his father led to him becoming head of the family firm of granary keepers and lighterman in Rotherhithe.
Became Chairman and President of the Model Railway Club.
Died in 1973.

Obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1973-4, p. 70

First son of John Mapletoft, Rector of Byfield, Northamptonshire. Baptised there on 17 November 1722

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 7 July 1739
Matriculated in 1740 ; B.A. 1743/4 ; M.A. 1748

Ordained deacon (Norwich) September 1745; priest (Peterborough) 25 September 1748
Chaplain to the East India Company, 1750

Died at Fulta, 1756, a fugitive from Calcutta

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.