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Born in Blackheath, the son of J.M. Burnup.
Educated at Malvern College where he captained the school cricket and racquets teams.

Matriculated from Clare College in Michaelmas 1894. B.A. 1898
Cricket ‘blue’, 1896, 1897, 1898 (leading run scorer in 1896 and 1898)
Football ‘blue’ 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898

1894 – 1901 - Played 79 matches for Corinthian FC scoring 28 times. In April 1896, whilst at Cambridge, he was selected to represent England against Scotland.

1896, whilst at Cambridge, he made his Kent County Cricket Club debut and played regularly for the county until 1907. He scored over 1,000 runs in a season for Kent eight times and made 157 first-class appearances for the side. In 1896 he became the first Kent batsman to score a century before lunch in Kent.
He made 102 consecutive County Championship appearances for Kent between 1899 and 1903, becoming the first man to play in over 100 consecutive Championship matches for the county. He captained Kent for one season in 1903. In that year he was named Wisden’s Cricketer of the Year.

Admitted to Clare College in 1936.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action and awarded the Victoria Cross.

Born in Cambridge on 5 May 1542, the eldest son of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520/21–1598), and his first wife, Mary (c.1520–1544).

Educated at home by tutors
Matriculated Fellow-Commoner from Trinity, Michaelmas 1558
M.A. 1571
Admitted at Gray's Inn

In 1561 Thomas's father sent him abroad to complete his education. Once he reached Paris he began to enjoy life and neglect his studies. His father accused him of being 'slothful in keeping his bed, rash in expenses, careless in his apparel, an unordinate lover of dice and cards; in study soon weary, in game never'. He seems to have amended his ways and completed his grand tour by visiting Antwerp, Speyer, Heidelberg, and Frankfurt, before returning home early in 1563 after an absence of nearly two years.

In 1564 he married Dorothy Neville, daughter of Lord Latimer of Belvoir Castle. They had thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters. Dorothy died in 1609 and a year later Cecil married Frances Smith, a thirty-year-old widow, less than half his age and younger than almost all his children. They had one daughter, who died in infancy.

He was MP for Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1562, 1571, 1572; for Lincolnshire, 1584-86; for Northamptonshire in 1592

In 1569 he helped to suppress the revolt of the northern earls.
In 1573 he volunteered to help the Scottish regent, Morton, storm Edinburgh Castle.
In 1575 he was knighted by the queen during a tournament at Kenilworth.
In 1585 when the Earl of Leicester was sent with an army to help the Dutch, Thomas Cecil was made captain of horse and governor of the English-controlled port of Brill, although he soon resigned on grounds of ill health.
In July 1588, when the Spanish Armada invaded he was made colonel in an army set up to defend 'Her Majesty's person'.
In 1601 as colonel-general of the London foot he helped his half-brother Robert Cecil smash the rebellion of the Earl of Essex.
In 1590 he had become the lord of the manor of Wimbledon and there built an impressive mansion. Over the next 10 years he entertained the Queen here on several occasions.
He was given a commission as Lord President of York (or President of the Council of the North) with special orders to hunt down Catholic recusants.
In 1598 on the death of his father he became second Baron Burghley.
For his part in crushing the Essex revolt he received the Garter.
When James I became king, he was first made a member of the Privy Council.
In 1605 he was made Earl of Exeter, at the same time as Robert was created Earl of Salisbury.

In 1617 his wife Frances was accused of plotting to poison Lady Lake, wife of one of the secretaries of state. The scandal became the talk of London. It was a very complicated affair, and the evidence was said to fill 17,000 sheets of paper. The Earl appealed to the King, who took such an interest in the case that he presided in person in Star Chamber and then went down to Wimbledon to test the chief witnesses. Finally he pronounced the Countess innocent and sentenced Lady Lake and her husband to the Tower for life.

Cecil died, probably at Wimbledon, on 7 February 1623.

Alfred Henry Chaytor was born on 28 October 1869 and was the second son of John Clervaux Chaytor and Emma Fearon. School: Durham.
Admitted to Clare on 8 October 1888
Law Tripos Pt I, 1st Class, 1890; Pt II, 1st Class, 1892
B.A. and LL.B. 1892; Chancellor's Medal for English Law, 1892; M.A. 1896.
Fellow, 1894.
Barrister (Inner Temple), 1894.
During the First World War he gained the rank of Captain in the service of the 8th City of London Regiment and was invalided home in 1916.
K.C., 1914.
Retired from the Bar, 1916.

He lived at Clervaux Castle, Croft, Yorkshire, England, and at Iridge Place, Sussex, England.
J.P. for the N. Riding and Sussex.
He married Dorothy Elizabeth Burrell, daughter of Harry Percy Burrell, on 1 August 1899.
He was a skilful salmon fisher and wrote Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons; Essays Sporting and Serious; Post War Manners and Fashions, etc.

He died on 12 July 1931 at Croft.

Born on 28 March 1809, son of John of Brickenden Grange, Herts.

Admitted pensioner at Clare, 3 November 1827.
Matriculated Michaelmas 1828.
B.A. 1832; M.A. 1835.
18 October 1837 married Charlotte Cassandra (daughter of Henry Phillpotts, D.D., Bishop of Exeter).
Founder of the Cherry Scholarship, 1836.
Died 10 March 1874.

Born in Hammesmith, the second son of George William Chibnall, bakery owner, and his wife Kate.
Educated at St Paul's School and gained an Exhibition to Clare College where he matriculated in 1912.

He began the Natural Sciences Tripos Part I but this was cut short by the advent of War.
He applied for a commission, and spent three years serving mainly in the Army Service Corps. In 1917 he applied to join the Royal Flying Corps and learned to fly in Cairo; he gained his wings in 1918.

In 1919 he was taken on by Professor H.B. Baker to do research for the newly instituted PhD at Imperial College, but he later switched to study the nitrogenous constituents of green leaves with Professor S.B. Schryver, whom he succeeded in 1929. He gained his PhD in 1921.

After a year's work at the Chelsea Physic Garden, he was awarded a travelling scholarship to the USA. He secured a place with the leading expert on plant proteins, T.B. Osborne, at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

In 1924 he joined the laboratory of Jack Drummond at University College London. In 1929 Cibnall took over the Chair of Bichemistry at Imperial College. He was appointed the second Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University in 1943. He resigned in 1949 since he felt it was a role more suited to a medically qualified biochemist.

His notable students included Fred Sanger, who was a double winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. After he was awarded a PhD in 1943 he joined Chibnall's lab. Chibnall suggested Sanger work on methods of identifying the terminal amino acid of Insulin. Chibnall then declined to have his name on Sanger's paper on the grounds that Sanger should get all the credit.

He married his cousin Helen Isabel Cicely Chibnall (known as Cicely) in 1931. Cicely died in 1936, giving birth to their second daughter.
In 1947 Chibnall married Marjorie McCallum Morgan, whom he had met after corresponding about one of his historical interests. They had a daughter and a son. Marjorie died in Sheffield on 23 June 2012, aged 96.

Chibnall died in Cambridge on 10 January 1988.