Edward Brian Pope was born on 29 June 1911 and came up to Clare in 1929. He became a rugby blue whilst at Clare and as such was one of the few.
James Plumptree was an undergraduate at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1788 or 1789 and then moved to Clare in 1790, ordained in 1794 and elected as Fellow at Clare in same year; curate of Hinxton, Essex from 1897 and then Vicar of Great Gransden from 1812; married Elizabeth Robinson in 1815.
Died on 23 January 1832, soon after his sixtieth birthday.
Born in London, the son of engineer Alfred Pippard. He was educated at Clifton College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1941.
He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 to 1982, and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which he was the first president.
Guy Vickery Pinfield was born in Assam, India on 21 October 1894 to Frank and Gertrude Pinfield. His father was a tea planter and his mother's brother Charles Simkins ran the Amguri Tea Estate at Assam.
His father died suddenly in January 1897 in Liverpool. On the 1901 Census, Guy was living with his widowed mother and sister at 43 Lansdown Place, Hove, Sussex. The same year, his mother married Patrick Russel and they later lived at Dane House, a mansion in Bishops Stortford.
He was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire from 1908 to Easter 1912 and entered Clare College in 1913. He was athletic and distinguished himself at rugby and played for Rosslyn Park RFC in south west London.
Wartime Service
He joined the Army when war was declared and received his commission on 15 August 1914 as a 2nd Lt in the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars.
By 1916, Pinfield was stationed at the Curragh and attached to the 10th Reserve Cavalry Regiment. When the Easter Rising began, he was sent to Dublin with reinforcements. Not far from Saint Patrick's Cathedral, he was mortally wounded, being among the first British officers (116 British soldiers) to lose his life during the Rebellion. His body was temporarily laid to rest within the grounds of Dublin Castle.
Unclaimed, his grave along with four others, lay forgotten until 1962. In 1963, his body was re-interred at Grangegorman Military Cemetery. A plaque is dedicated to Lieutenant Pinfield inside Dublin's Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Church of Ireland); the only plaque within the cathedral dedicated to an individual killed during the 1916 Rising. In 2011, Guy Vickery Pinfield was the subject of both an RTE presentation and an article in the "Irish Times" relating to a gold locket which had been sold at auction for £850, more than double its estimate. It had been worn by his mother and was engraved with his initials, his date of death and the Hussar's motto "Pristinae virtutis memories" (The memory of former valour).
Born in 1615, the son of John Philpott, Somerset herald and his wife Susan
Admitted to Clare College in 1634 as a Fellow Commoner
M.A. 1636 incorporated in that degree at Oxford University 1640
Died 1682
Born in 1910 the son of the Rev. E.E. Phillips of Markyate Vicarage in Dunstable.
He attended Dover College before being admitted to Clare on 15 January 1929 to read Natural Sciences.
He then studied at Barts Hospital in London gaining a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellowhip of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1936.
He married and entered General Practice.
During the Second World War he volunteered for the Army but was assigned to a hospital ship.
He served in the eastern Mediterranean, in Egypt and in the North African campaign and was with the earliest troop landings in Sicily.
He was seconded to the Royal Military Hospital in York to assist in operations at various hospitals.
After the war he returned to General Practice and built up a partnership with around 10,000 patients.
He retired in 1973.
Obituary: The Clare Association Annual 2007-08 pp.121-122
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.
Matriculated as sizar from Clare College in April 1627
B.A. 1629/30
M.A. 1633
Fellow 1633-77
Senior Proctor 1648-49
Ordained Deacon at Peterborough on 1 March 1639/40
Ordained priest at Lincoln on 18 July 1661
Vicar of Everton, Huntingdonshire, 1663-77
Died in College 1677
Admitted sizar at Clare College on 19 January 1651/2
Matriculated in 1652
B.A. 1655/6
M.A. 1662
Curate of Trimley St Martin, Suffolk, 1662
Vicar of Cavenham, Suffolk, 1678-88
Rector of Tuddenham, Suffolk, 1688-98
Born in Cambridge and attended Repton School.
Admitted to Clare College on 20 April 1942 to study for the Mechanical Sciences Tripos.
Obituary - see Clare Review, 2021-22