Paul Mellon was born 1907 in Pittsburgh, he graduated at Yale in 1929 and then came to Clare College that year to read History. He graduated in 1931 and his father, Andrew Mellon, was given an Honorary Degree at the same ceremony. After his father died in 1937 he turned from his father's world of business and made philanthropy his extraordinary legacy. Over his lifetime, Mellon gave nearly a billion dollars to museums and other causes ranging from public health to the environment. In 2007 the College will celebrate the centenary of Paul Mellon's birth and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Mellon Fellowships. An exhibition has been mounted at the University Library.
Born on 24 March 1855 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Father of Paul Mellon, (m.1929).
American Banker, Businessman, Industrialist and philanthropist. U.S. Secretary to the Treasury 1921-32, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. 1932-33.
Died 26 August 1937, Southampton, New York, U.S.A.
Born on 7 March 1903 in New South Wales, Australia
Educated at Sidney University
Admitted to Clare College on 13 July 1927
Born on 22 February 1876 in Belfast
School - Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh
Admitted to Clare College on 16 March 1894
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1894
B.A. 1897
Rugby Football 'blue,' 1896
Played for Ireland, 1899 and 1900; in the Anglo-Australian XV, 1899
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature Ireland
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, R.A.O.C.; D.A.Q.M.G.; mentioned in dispatches)
Master of Clare College, 1975-1993
Known as Robin
Born in Edinburgh in 1927
Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
1965-1975 - Professor of Political Economy at Oxford
1980-1991 - Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge
1975-1993 - Master of Clare College
Matriculated at Clare, 1901, graduated 1904
Member of Clare College Boat Club
Fellow of Clare College 1698-1723.
Attended Oundle School, matriculated at Clare in 1925. He studied engineering and was later a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Awarded CBE and Knight of the Order of St John.
He died on 12 March 2004.