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Born on 27 June 1832
Son of Henry of Needham Market, Suffolk
School – Ipswich

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 11 June 1851
Matriculated Michaelmas 1851
B.A. 1855; M.A. 1858
Fellow, 1855
Dean
Proctor, 1862

Ordained deacon (Ely) 1856; priest (London) 1857; Curate of Christ Church, St Pancras, London, 1856-9. Vicar of Litlington, Cambs., 1866-7. Rector of Rotherhithe with St Paul's, Globe Street, London, 1867-1907
Lady Margaret Preacher, 1869
Rural Dean of Southwark, 1875-87
Hon. Canon of Rochester, 1893-1905
Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral, 1905-24

Lived latterly at 4, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge

Author of History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe [There is a copy of this in the Archive search room 942.659 BEC inscribed by the author 'Presented to Clare College Library by Canon Beck June 1907')

Died on 17 October 1924 in Cambridge

Born on 6 August 1890 the son of F. Bennett (Newspaper Proprietor). Attended Barker College, New South Wales, Australia.

Admitted to Clare College on 30 July 1909.

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