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Fellow, 1923-34, Honorary Fellow 1956-74. Antarctic explorer (with Shackleton and Scott). First Secretary General of the Faculties (Cambridge).

Born in Tewkesbury, the son of Joseph Edward Priestley, headmaster of Tewkesbury grammar school.
Educated at his father's school and taught there for a year before reading geology at University College, Bristol (1905–07).

He had completed his second year of studies when he enlisted as a geologist for Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition (1907–09) to Antarctica. He was part of the advance team that laid the food and fuel depots for Shackleton's nearly successful attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1909. He returned to the Antarctic as a member of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), after being recruited by Scott when the Terra Nova arrived in Sydney.

Served in the British Army during World War I and was awarded the Military Cross in March 1919.

His research and thesis on glaciers in the Antarctic earned him a BA (Research) at Cambridge in 1920.

In 1920 he co-founded, with fellow Terra Nova expedition member Frank Debenham, the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge

In 1922 he was elected a Fellow of Clare College.

In 1924 he joined the university's administrative staff, becoming concurrently assistant registrar, secretary to the board of research studies and secretary-general of the faculties.

From the 1930s until his retirement, he held a series of academic and government administrative posts in Australia and England.
1935-1938 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
1938-1952 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
1947 - Knighted for Services to Education
During this period he developed an acquaintance with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, providing him with rooms for discussions and lectures.

After retirement in 1952, he served as Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service (1953-1955), as deputy Director of the former Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (later called the British Antarctic Survey) (1955-1958), and as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1956).

He revisited Antarctica in 1956 and 1959 and in the latter year was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, for whom he was president from 1961 to 1963.

Born 1719 in Norwich
Son of Edmund Prideaux
Admitted Fellow Commoner to Clare College 1737. Matriculated 1737.
Sherriff of Cornwall 1750
Died 1793 in Bath and buried at Padstow

Born in 1615, the son of John Philpott, Somerset herald and his wife Susan

Admitted to Clare College in 1634 as a Fellow Commoner
M.A. 1636 incorporated in that degree at Oxford University 1640
Died 1682

Born in Forshalla near Gothenburg the son of the chemist and oceanographer Otto Pettersson.

Studied Sciences at Uppsala University, graduating in 1909.
He then studied atomic physics as a postgraduate at the Institute for Radium Research, Vienna.

1913 he joined the staff of the Swedish Hydrographic-Biological Commission.
1914 he began lecturing in Oceanography at University of Gothenburg.

He became the first full professor of oceanography in Sweden and in 1938 founded the Institute of Oceanography in Gothenburg remaining as its head until 1956. He also was the head of the Bornö Hydrographic Field Station on Stora Bornö.

In 1956, aged 68, he became Professor of Geophysics at the University of Hawaii.

He wrote many popular scientific texts which helped disseminate progress in oceanography to the general audience.
In July 1947, the Albatross expedition started its around the world voyage with Pettersson as leader of the expedition.

He died in Gothenburg on 25 January 1966.

Matriculated as sizar from Clare College in April 1627
B.A. 1629/30
M.A. 1633
Fellow 1633-77
Senior Proctor 1648-49
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough on 1 March 1639/40
Ordained priest at Lincoln on 18 July 1661
Vicar of Everton, Huntingdonshire, 1663-77
Died in College 1677

Admitted sizar at Clare College on 19 January 1651/2
Matriculated in 1652
B.A. 1655/6
M.A. 1662

Curate of Trimley St Martin, Suffolk, 1662
Vicar of Cavenham, Suffolk, 1678-88
Rector of Tuddenham, Suffolk, 1688-98

Matriculated at Clare, 1884

Admitted to Clare on 21 March 1884
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1884
Scholar; B.A. 1887; M.A. 1891
Assistant Master at Wakefield Grammar School, 1887; at the London International College [Isleworth College]; at Christ College, Brecon, 1888; at Eastbourne College (and House Master), 1895-1930

Well known as a golfer

Died on 11 December 1933 aged 68

Admitted as a sizar to Clare College in 1633
B.A. 1637/8; M.A. 1641; LL.D 1648

Fellow of Clare College
Admitted advocate of Doctor’s Commons, London 1648

Died 1656

Master of Clare College 1620-1645 (ejected); 1660 (restored but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham)

B.A. from Clare c.1602-1603
M.A. 1606
B.D. 1613
D.D. 1621
Fellow

Elected Master of Clare, 31 December 1620. Ejected in 1645. Restored in 1660 but resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr Dillingham

Vice-Chancellor, 1623-24
Vicar of Hendon, Middlesex, 1611-26
Rector of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, London, 1624-44 (ejected)
Vicar of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1625. Sequestered, 1643
Prebendary of Canterbury, 1625-62
Archdeacon of London, 1626-62
Prebendary of York, 1628-62
Chaplain to James, Marquis of Hamilton

Died c. September 1662

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.