Born in 1891 the son of Christopher Bennett (Newspaper Proprietor). Attended Barker College, New South Wales, Australia.
Admitted to Clare College on 30 July 1909.
Richard Bennett matriculated in 1920 and graduated from Clare in 1924. He studied Natural Sciences.
He was the nephew of the well-known author Arnold Bennett and he later donated the c.600 letters that he received from his uncle to the UL. Richard Bennett was also a member of the 'Boot club', a college group founded through a mutual interest in 'the Boot' pub in Dullingham (see Volume 1). After leaving the College he held posts at Lever Brothers and later ICI.
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
Born in Chelsea, Middlesex the son of Edward, of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and of Calstone-Wellington, Wilts
Admitted as a Pensioner to Clare College on 7 July 1822
Matriculated Michaelmas 1823
B.A. (17th Wrangler) 1827; M.A. 1830
Fellow, 1829-36
Of Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, in 1841; without cure.
Minister of the English Congregation at Tours, France, c. 1843-59.
Fellow of Clare College 1960-1998
University Lecturer in Geology 1955-1982
Professor Robert Martin (Bob) Blackburn graduated in Maths and Philosophy at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and received a PhD in Social Science at Liverpool University. At Liverpool he taught Sociology, Research Methods and Social Philosophy before moving to Cambridge as Head of Sociological Research in the Department of Applied Economics, subsequently joining the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (now HSPS), teaching Issues of Social Inequality.
In 1972 he was Nuffield Foundation Social Science Fellow at the University of Lausanne, and in 1984-5 an invited Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Bob served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta. He taught a graduate course on the work of his research group at Getulio Vargas University, Sao Paolo. He was a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and served on the Academy Council from 2005 to 2011. Bob also served on the Executive Committee of the British Sociological Association, as a Consultant for the UN, the EC, and the ILO, and also for the Australian National University, Dalhousie University and the University of East Anglia. He was an Honorary Professor of Stirling University.
Professor Blackburn joined the Fellowship in 1966. Many alumni will remember him fondly not just as a supervisor: he was also a supportive tutor. In retirement, he was very much a regular at lunch in College and was held in high regard and affection by staff and Fellows alike.
Born in 1907 in Bordon Camp, Bordon, Hampshire, the first son of The Very Reverend Harry Blackburne
Educated at Marlborough College
Admitted to Clare College on 15 January 1926 where he studied Modern Languages and Geography
1930 - entered the colonial service and served in Nigeria, Palestine and the Gambia
1943-1947 - served in the West Indies
1947-1950 - Director of colonial information services in London
1950 - returned to the West Indies
1950-1956 - Governor of the Leeward Islands
1957-1962 - Governor of Jamaica. When Jamaica received its independence in August 1962, Blackburne was appointed as the Governor-General; he served in that position for three months till 30 November 1962 when his Jamaican replacement, Clifford Campbell, took office.
He died on 4 November 1980 in Douglas, Isle of Man