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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.

Born on 11 October 1905 in Kensington the son of Charles Alexander Hill.
School - Harrow
Admitted to Clare on 15 July 1925 to read Natural Sciences.
He was secretary and then president of the Athletics Club with the half-mile being his speciality.

Born in London, probably the son of Thomas Done, of Gray's Inn, London.
Admitted Fellow Commoner at Clare College, 13 October 1703.
Admitted at the Inner Temple in 1705.

Born c. 1678
Son of Robert Greene, a mercer of Tamworth, Staffs

Admitted as a sizar at Clare College on the 8 October 1694
BA 1700
MA 1703
Fellow 1703-1730
Ordained London 1705
DD 1728
Died 1730

"Dr Goddard's note says: 'He published a large folio of his own Philosophy'. This was i n1712. In it he combated the Newtonian views. He maintained that there was no such thing as vacuum and that the circle could be squared; held strange views of gravity, and regarded the new system as tending to undermine revelation. It appears that he was thought by his contemporaries (not without some reason) to be mad". [Wardale, J.R., College Histories Clare College pp.150-151]