Ecucated at Clifton College 1930-35, and admitted to Clare in 1935. Was in the 1st May Boat in 1938.
Admitted to Clare in 1938. Distinguished military career; awarded an MC during Emergency in Malaya.
Guy Vickery Pinfield was born in Assam, India on 21 October 1894 to Frank and Gertrude Pinfield. His father was a tea planter and his mother's brother Charles Simkins ran the Amguri Tea Estate at Assam.
His father died suddenly in January 1897 in Liverpool. On the 1901 Census, Guy was living with his widowed mother and sister at 43 Lansdown Place, Hove, Sussex. The same year, his mother married Patrick Russel and they later lived at Dane House, a mansion in Bishops Stortford.
He was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire from 1908 to Easter 1912 and entered Clare College in 1913. He was athletic and distinguished himself at rugby and played for Rosslyn Park RFC in south west London.
Wartime Service
He joined the Army when war was declared and received his commission on 15 August 1914 as a 2nd Lt in the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars.
By 1916, Pinfield was stationed at the Curragh and attached to the 10th Reserve Cavalry Regiment. When the Easter Rising began, he was sent to Dublin with reinforcements. Not far from Saint Patrick's Cathedral, he was mortally wounded, being among the first British officers (116 British soldiers) to lose his life during the Rebellion. His body was temporarily laid to rest within the grounds of Dublin Castle.
Unclaimed, his grave along with four others, lay forgotten until 1962. In 1963, his body was re-interred at Grangegorman Military Cemetery. A plaque is dedicated to Lieutenant Pinfield inside Dublin's Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Church of Ireland); the only plaque within the cathedral dedicated to an individual killed during the 1916 Rising. In 2011, Guy Vickery Pinfield was the subject of both an RTE presentation and an article in the "Irish Times" relating to a gold locket which had been sold at auction for £850, more than double its estimate. It had been worn by his mother and was engraved with his initials, his date of death and the Hussar's motto "Pristinae virtutis memories" (The memory of former valour).
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.