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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.

Born in Liscard, Cheshire he was educated at Rossall School and Clare College, Cambridge.

After graduation he worked with the Air Ministry on structural problems of airships.

At 28, in 1929, he contracted tuberculosis. Upon recovering, he became a technical officer with the Structural Steel Research Committee and developed the plastic theory of design, a revolutionary method of design of steel structures. In 1932 he was awarded the Telford Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the work.

1933 - Professor of Engineering at Bristol University
1939-1943 - scientific adviser to the Design and Development Section of the Ministry of Home Security. He created the Morrison indoor shelter
1943-1968 - Professor of Mechanical Sciences and Head of Department at Cambridge University Engineering Department.

1941 - appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1956 - elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded their Royal Medal in 1970
1961 - received a knighthood
1963 - honorary graduate as Doctor of Science at the University of Edinburgh
1977 - created a life peer as Baron Baker of Windrush in the County of Gloucestershire

Master of Clare College, 1815-1856

Born in February 1775 at Sutton Coldfield. The son of William, Master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 30 April 1793
B.A. (18th Wrangler; aegrotat) 1797
M.A. 1800
B.D. 1808
D.D. 1816

Elected to a Fellowship in 1799

Ordained Deacon at Peterborough in 1800 and as Priest in 1801
Presented to the College living at Litlington in 1812
May 1815 promoted to the combined livings of Fornham All Saints and Westley. He resigned from these livings upon his election as Master in July 1815

Vice-Chancellor, 1817-18 and 1832-3
President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1843-44
He married Anne, the daughter of the Rev. T.V. Gould, his predecessor in the living at Westley

Died 4 January 1856

Born in Prussia in 1841. Son of John Frederick Lewis, merchant of Burg, Magdeburg, Prussia.

Admitted pensioner (age 27) at Pembroke, on 1 May 1841
Matriculated Michaelmas 1841.
B.A. (4th Wrangler) in 1845.
Migrated to Clare. M.A. 1848.
1848 Exeter Fellow; 1848 Diggons Fellow; 1853-60 Fellow of Clare College.
Naturalised 22 February 1848.
Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at St Andrews, 1847-59, and of Mathematics, 1859-79. Resigned.
Hon. LL.D., from St Andrews, 1869.
Fellow of the Royal Society.

Married Sarah Sophia, daughter of Benjamin Cotton, of Upton Manor, Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Died 8 January 1890.
Father of Max Temple (admitted to Clare in 1880), and Francis Norton (admitted to Clare in 1886).

Son of I. C. Lovell, provision merchant. Born 6 September 1869.
School, St Paul's.
Admitted at Clare,17 June 1888 and matriculated Michaelmas 1888
B.A. 1893; M.A, 1921

Admitted Solicitor in 1893 and practised in London.
Served in the First World War as a Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery. Twice wounded.

Rhoda Bass took over as Lodging House Keeper of Braeside in 1958 until 1983 but continued to live there until 1990 when her husband Arthur Bass died. Arthur Bass had worked in the SCR/Pantry for 8yrs (1975 -83). Many of her "Old Boys" as she called them kept in touch over the years. Her daughter Billie (Hostel keeper at the Colony 1978, Senior Housekeeper, 1986 - 2001) and her husband Peter Allinson (Clare Fellow's Butler from 1982 and under Butler from 1976) have also worked for Clare.

Master of Clare College (1726-1736).

Son of Robert and Margaret Morgan and baptised at St Paul's, Covent Garden on 24 September 1678
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 12 October 1693
Matriculated in 1693
B.A. 1697/8
M.A. 1701
D.D. 1728 (Com. Reg.)
Fellow, 1700-20
Master of Clare, 1726-36
Vice-Chancellor, 1732-3

Ordained priest (Lincoln) 11 June 1704
Chaplain to Bishop Moore of Ely
Rector of Whitton-cum-Thurston, Suffolk, 1714
Rector of Glemsford, Suffolk, 1718-36

Died on 30 April 1736
On his death he left all of his books to the library at Clare.