Given to the College in the will of Dr. Henry Hornsby in 1517. Hornby (BD 1489/ 90) was a Fellow of Clare College and afterwards of Michaelhouse, before becoming Master of Peterhouse in 1509; he was one of the circle of Lady Margaret, mother of Henry VII,
Caldecote, Bourn and Toft: Deans and Pecks Farms (Blithe), 1680 and 1821 (combined with Gregorys Farm to create Caldecote and Highfields Farms; sold, 1932 and 1937). Deans farm and Pecks farm appear to be the same property according to the 1594 terrier.
Admitted to Clare College and was a Fellow (1613-1631).
1618-1624 director to the affairs of the Virginia Company.
1626 ordained as a deacon and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.
Master of Clare College, 1713-1726
Son of Thomas Grigg of Middlesex
Admitted pensioner at Jesus College on 24 September 1684
Matriculated in 1685
Scholar, 1685, from St Paul's School, London
Rustat scholar at Jesus
B.A. 1688/9
M.A. 1697
D.D. (Com. Reg.) 1717
Fellow, 1696-1714
Master of Clare 1713-1726
He was nominated by the Duke of Somerset, the Chancellor of the University as the votes of the society were equally divided.
“We know but little about him, but that little does not tend to give us a very high opinion of his character”, Wardale, J.R. *College Histories: Clare College”.
Vice-Chancellor, 1716-17
Ordained Priest at Lincoln, 8 June 1707
Vicar of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 1705
Vicar of All Saints', Cambridge, 1707-17
Rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1717-26
Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset
Died 9 April 1726