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Born in Goginan, Cardiganshire and educated at Lewis School Pengam and the University of Wales, Aberystwth.
Matriculated at Clare in 1897 to study Natural Sciences.
1899 BA and 1903 MA.

1 August 1912 married Muriel Gwendolen Edwards, a colleague and keen climber. She was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the University of Wales.

1901 - demonstrator to the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Sir James Dewar.
1902 became a Fellow of Clare College and then a lecturer.

1907 - became a keen climber after receiving some tuition in Snowdonia.
1909 - member of the Alpine Club.

Jones and his wife were killed in an accident on their honeymoon in Switzerland, while climbing the Aiguille Rouge de Peuterey 2941m a subpeak of Aiguille Noire de Peuterey on 15 August 1912 in Italy. Their guide, Julius Truffer, slipped and fell on Jones, and all three dropped nearly 1,000 feet to the Fresnay Glacier.

Matriculated at Clare in 1950. For more than thirty years he worked as a consultant to the London office of The Asahi Shimbun, and (writing in English, but translated into Japanese) he contributed to the funeral books of two of his bosses. He now lives in Thailand.

Attended Oundle School, matriculated at Clare in 1925. He studied engineering and was later a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Awarded CBE and Knight of the Order of St John.
He died on 12 March 2004.

Matriculated at Clare, 1884

Admitted to Clare on 21 March 1884
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1884
Scholar; B.A. 1887; M.A. 1891
Assistant Master at Wakefield Grammar School, 1887; at the London International College [Isleworth College]; at Christ College, Brecon, 1888; at Eastbourne College (and House Master), 1895-1930

Well known as a golfer

Died on 11 December 1933 aged 68

School - Rossall
Admitted to Clatre on 7 Oct 1872
Matriculated Michaelmas 1872
Exhibitioner; Chancellor's English medal, 1875
B.A. 1876; M.A. 1879
Seatonian prize, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1903, 1906

Ordained deacon (Winchester) 1876; priest (Rochester) 1877; Curate of St Mary Magdalene, Peckham, 1876-80
Curate of St Stephen's, St Marylebone, 1880-2
Curate of St Stephen's, Paddington, 1883-6
Rector of St Paul's, Aberdeen, 1886-94
Vicar of Wrawby, Lincs., 1894-1908

Married, 5 Sept 1883 to Mary, eldest daughter of W. G. Shuttleworth of Peckham

Died 25 Jan 1908, aged 55, at Brigg

Matriculated at Clare, 1926, BA Medicine (ord) in 1929.

Noted radiotherapist and specialist in cancer diagnostics. Professor of Radiotherapy, University of London and Director of Radiotherapy at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Born in Cambridge in 1802.

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on 20 November 1819
Matriculated Michaelmas 1820
B.A. (30th Wrangler) 1824
M.A. 1827

Fellow, 1829-71

Chaplain of St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1841-60

Died in 1871

Born in Birkenhead in 1902
School - Birkenhead School

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1924)
Demonstrator at Manchester University

1936 - Fellow of Clare College

1960 - elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960
1969 - Professor Emeritus

His major work was a three-volume treatise on tissue culture, "Cells and Tissue in Culture: methods, biology and physiology" (1965).

He created oil paintings detailing landscapes, mainly in Cambridgeshire and Mid Wales
He designed the Fellows' Garden in Clare College

Died - April 2001

Born at Old Warden, Bedfordshire in 1795 the eldest son of the Revd Edmund, Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire

Admitted as a pensioner at Clare College on 1 July 1814
Matriculated Michaelmas 1814
B.A. 1818; M.A. 1821

Ordained deacon, 1819; priest, 1821
Rector of Campton with Shefford, Bedfordshire (succeeding his father), 1839-64
Founder of the Bedford Library; Hon. Secretary and Vice-President

Died 7 August 1864, aged 68

Admitted to Clare in October 1903 to read mathematics (First class).
Elected into a Fellowship in 1907 and was awarded the Smith's prize in 1908.

1910 married Ethel Marienne Harvey piper. They had two sons who also attended Clare as did their grandson.

WWI - served as Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery and as Assistant Proof and Experimental Officer at Woolwich Arsenal. His services were recognised with the award of an MBE.

After lecturing in maths at Liverpool and then back in Cambridge he was commissioned as a Scientific Officer at Woolwich Arsenal in 1914. From 1919-1924 he continued scientific work in Cambridge and then changed direction to deal with administration of Clare College. He became Bursar, Financial Tutor and Steward and also dealt with the College Archives. This was the period when the College was run mainly by three men, Sir Henry Thirkill, Dr. W. Telfer and William Harrison who were known as the "Holy Trinity". Harrison retired in 1949 but continued his research in the Archives publishing books on the history of the College.

1929 - 1949 served as Bursar.

Obituary: The Clare Association Annual 1969, pp. 56-57.