Admitted to Clare College and was a Fellow (1613-1631).
1618-1624 director to the affairs of the Virginia Company.
1626 ordained as a deacon and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.
Master of Clare College, 1713-1726
Son of Thomas Grigg of Middlesex
Admitted pensioner at Jesus College on 24 September 1684
Matriculated in 1685
Scholar, 1685, from St Paul's School, London
Rustat scholar at Jesus
B.A. 1688/9
M.A. 1697
D.D. (Com. Reg.) 1717
Fellow, 1696-1714
Master of Clare 1713-1726
He was nominated by the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor of the University as the votes of the society were equally divided.
“We know but little about him, but that little does not tend to give us a very high opinion of his character”, Wardale, J.R. *College Histories: Clare College”.
Vice-Chancellor, 1716-17
Ordained Priest at Lincoln, 8 June 1707
Vicar of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1705
Vicar of All Saints', Cambridge, 1707-17
Rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1717-26
Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset
Died 9 April 1726
Born on 25 September 1827 in Great Glemham, Suffolk
Son of Captain Edwin Bloomfield
Admitted as pensioner to Pembroke College in 1846 and matriculated in 1846
Migrated to Clare College in 1847
B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1859, M.A. 1853
Made a Fellow in 1850.
Ordained deacon 1853, priest (Ely) 1854
Rector of Guestling, Sussex 1862–1914
Botanist
Died 29 April 1914 at Guestling
In 1326, the University, under the Chancellorship of Richard de Badew, founded University Hall, two messuages in Milne Street being assigned as a residence for its scholars. Little is known of the new college, but within a decade of its foundation, the founder was forced to seek a patron to rebuild the college, possibly after a disastrous fire. It was presumably Badew’s connection with the Clares that he turned to Lady Elizabeth de Clare for assistance and she refounded it as Clare Hall, endowing it with the advowsons of Littlington in 1336 and Great Gransden and Duxford in 1346, and providing it with a set of statutes in 1356. Thus provision was made for a Master and 15 Scholars (later called Fellows) and also 10 poor scholars.
Thanks to multiple endowments, including land at Potton, Everton and Gamlingay, Clare’s wealth and size grew steadily until it was necessary to completely rebuild the college. After a long legal wrangle, land was acquired from King’s College and between 1638 and the early eighteenth century, the buildings that form Old Court were erected together with the bridge which was completed in 1640. Further substantial additions to the College were not required until the twentieth century, when Memorial Court, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, built on the West side of the river, was opened in 1926 and extended later in the century. As admission numbers continued to rise, further extensions to College accommodation saw college property on Chesterton Lane consolidated into The Colony and St Regis Flats built on Chesterton Road.
In 1970 Stearn and Son joined Eaden Lilley Photographers.
The copyright of the photos taken by Eaden Lilley has now passed to Lafayette Photography.
William Greaves was born in Rochdale, Lancs and was the son of William, of Gartside Hall, Lancashire.
He was admitted to Clare on 26 January 1719/20.
B.A. 1720/1. M.A. 1724
Fellow, 1722-42.
Admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 03 June 1724 and at the Inner Temple on 09 November 1727.
Commissary of the University, 1726-79.
Steward of the estates of Trinity College.
Married a daughter of Beaupré Bell.
Succeeded to his estates at Outwell, Norfolk, and assumed the name of Beaupré-Bell.
Died at Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, 10 March 1787.
John Rutter (1945-), Clare 1964, was director of Music at Clare from 1975-1979. He later formed the Cambridge Singers and continued to compose music and carols. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours for 2007 (in December 2006).
Originally from Barnsley, William Kelsey came to Clare in 1914 and is pictured in the 1914 matriculation photograph. He received his commission on his 19th birthday, serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He was grievously wounded in France on 14 July 1916, later dying of his injuries at the Empire Hospital in London. His name is included on the College War Memorial plaque in the Chapel.