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Born on 1 March 1716 in Kingston, Nottinghamshire
Son of John Berridge, farmer
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College, 12 June 1735
B.A. 1738/9
M.A. 1742
Fellow 1740-55
Taxor 1746
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 10 March 1744/45
Ordained priest 9 June 1745
Curate of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, 1750-55
Vicar of Everton, Bedfordshire, and Tetworth, Huntingdonshire, 1755-93
Well-known early 'Evangelical' preacher
Author of The Christian World Unmasked and other works
Died 22 June 1793

Master of Clare College, 1678-1713

Born in Doncaster, Samuel Blyth was first admitted to Clare College as a sizar undergraduate in 1652.
He gained his BA in 1655 and was made a Fellow in 1658, later serving as College Master 1678-1713.
He was a considerable benefactor to the College.

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.

Matriculated pensioner from Clare College, Michaelmas 1615
B.A. 1618-9; M.A. 1622
Fellow
Perhaps Vicar of Plumstead, Kent, 1632 (M.A.)
Perhaps Rector of Bramfield, Herts.

Ejected in 1635 and re-instated in 1660
Died in 1677