Born 1608
Matriculated from Clare College as a pensioner in Michaelmas Term 1626
B.A. 1629, M.A. 1633, M.D. 1657
Fellow 1631-86
Senior Proctor 1643
Died in College 1686
Matriculated at Clare, 1965.
Known to friends as Sebastian and also known as Jack Sprott.
Born at Sillwood Place, Crowborough, Sussex, to Herbert Sprott and his wife, née Mary Elizabeth Williams
School - Felsted School
Clare College where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles
He was invalidated from serving in the military during the First World War and taught in preparatory schools
In the 1920s, he became acquainted with other members of the Bloomsbury Group
He was romantically involved with the economist John Maynard Keynes, who was at the time also seeing the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The affair with Keynes ended after Keynes married Lopokova
After a job as a demonstrator at the Psychological Laboratory in Cambridge, he moved to the University of Nottingham, where he eventually became professor of philosophy
He died on 2 September 1971 at Langham Road, Blakeney, Norfolk
He was the son of Reverend Richard Edward Hull Kingston of Aglish, County Waterford, and Frances Sandiford. Most of his early life was spent in the family home at Horsehead in Passage West, County Cork. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at University College Cork. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with first-class honours in 1910, and almost immediately obtained a position in the Indian Medical Service. In 1913, he was seconded from military duty as naturalist to the Indo-Russian Pamir triangulation expedition. In 1914 he went on war service and saw action in East Africa, France, Mesopotamia, and the N.W. Frontier, gaining two mentions in dispatches and the Military Cross for gallantry in action. He wrote several books based on his travels and natural history observations. He was the medical officer on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition on which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine died.
Admitted as a sizar to Clare College in 1633
B.A. 1637/8; M.A. 1641; LL.D 1648
Fellow of Clare College
Admitted advocate of Doctor’s Commons, London 1648
Died 1656
Born in Forshalla near Gothenburg the son of the chemist and oceanographer Otto Pettersson.
Studied Sciences at Uppsala University, graduating in 1909.
He then studied atomic physics as a postgraduate at the Institute for Radium Research, Vienna.
1913 he joined the staff of the Swedish Hydrographic-Biological Commission.
1914 he began lecturing in Oceanography at University of Gothenburg.
He became the first full professor of oceanography in Sweden and in 1938 founded the Institute of Oceanography in Gothenburg remaining as its head until 1956. He also was the head of the Bornö Hydrographic Field Station on Stora Bornö.
In 1956, aged 68, he became Professor of Geophysics at the University of Hawaii.
He wrote many popular scientific texts which helped disseminate progress in oceanography to the general audience.
In July 1947, the Albatross expedition started its around the world voyage with Pettersson as leader of the expedition.
He died in Gothenburg on 25 January 1966.
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.
Born in 1927, the daughter of Edgar Walter Savours (civil engineer) and Margaret (a poet and teacher)
1949 - Bachelor's degree with honours from the Royal Holloway College, University of London
Studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned a diploma in French civilization in 1950
1950-1951 - Studied art at the Burslem School of Art
1952-1954 – worked as a library assistant at the University of Aberdeen
1954-1966 - assistant librarian and curator of manuscripts at the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University
1970 - assistant keeper at the National Maritime Museum
1973 - appointed custodian of manuscripts
1977 – retirement in 1987 - in charge of the Arctic gallery
1955 - member of the Cambridge Spitsbergen Physiological Expedition
1960 – member of the Australian National Antarctic Expedition
1960-1961 - honorary research fellow at the Australian National University
1978-1980 - member of the council of the Royal Geographical Society
She was also a member of the council and a vice president of the Hakluyt Society (from 2002) and of the Society for Nautical Research
Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944. One of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union. He was paroled in 1948. He was a prominent academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932 to 1943, rector 1956 to 1962, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death.
Professor Susan Alcock is an American archaeologist specialising in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire.
She was educated at Yale University (1979-1983) and then studied Classics at Clare College (first class BA in 1985; MA 1989; PhD 1989).
She was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018.
She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics & Letters.
She was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2012.