Matriculated at Clare, 1884.
Richard John Eden, Emeritus Professor of Energy Studies, was elected Fellow of Clare College in 1951, also becoming Director of Studies in Mathematics. He was closely involved in the founding of Clare Hall in 1966 and in that year he also became a Fellow of Clare Hall, where after retirement he is now an Honorary Fellow. He is the author of "Clare College and the founding of Clare Hall", (Clare Hall, 1998).
Matriculated at Clare, 1863.
Sir Harry Godwin 1901-1985, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge 1960-1968. He was born on 9th May 1901 at Holmes, Rotherham, Yorkshire and later won an open scholarship from his school at Long Eaton and came to Clare College in 1919 where he read Botany, Geology and Chemistry for the first part of the Natural Science Tripos. He began work on the vegetation of Wicken Fen which saw the start of his contributions on the history of the British Flora. In 1925 he was elected Fellow of Clare and became well established in the Department of Botany. He became Secretary of the British Ecological Society in 1932 and later edited The New Phytologist. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945 in recognition of his achievements in ecology and also helped to establish the University Subdepartment of Quaternary Research which flourished under his directorship. During this time new fields of investigation were established such as radiocarbon dating. He also wrote his classic work at this time, The History of The British Flora. Eventually he was appointed Professor of Botany in 1960, a year after he had been Acting Master at Clare (1958-1959). He was knighted ten years later in 1970 and two years afterwards he retired in 1968. See obituary in Clare Association Annual, 1984-5, pp. 76-79; Obituary by Prof. Richard West in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 34, 1988.
(1888-1917). A talented musician, by the age of eight he was playing the organ at St Saviour's Church, Leicester. Matriculated at Clare, 1907 (organ scholar 1907-1910) and later was sub-organist at King's College. He was killed in action in 1917.
Known as 'Charles' to his family.
J Rendel Harris (1852-1941) was one of the most prolific and influential New Testament scholars of his time and was responsible for bringing to light hitherto lost early Christian writings and gathered major collections of Syriac manuscripts and Greek papyri, especially the Syriac Bible. It was Dr. Harris who provided Dr. Agnes Smith Lewis and her sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson (twin sisters in Cambridge with interest in ancient Syriac writings) with the contacts in Egypt that enabled them to visit the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mt. Sinai. This collaboration led to the discovery of the Sinaitic Palimpsest. Dr. Harris matriculated at Clare College, Cambridge in 1870 and he became a fellow in mathematics in 1875-78, 1892, and in 1902-04. He was also Librarian from 1898-1902.
Matriculated at Clare, 1903. Changed his name from Schulhop.
In 1932 Robert S Hutton was elected the first Goldsmith's Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. He sought admission to Clare College but this was not granted until 1936 and he remained a Fellow until his death in 1970.
Matriculated at Clare, 1947.
The volumes in this series are all notebooks Majerus use in the field to record his findings. Very few are dated by year.