Alfred Young was born on 16 April, 1873 in Widnes, Lancashire; his family moved to Bournemouth in 1879 and after being educated at home when to Monkton Combe School near Bath. He won a scholarship to Clare College and was admitted in 1892; excellent oarsman; began to undertake research in his third year which prevented him from achieving a very high position in the Tripos and so he was placed tenth Wrangler in 1895; he published his first paper in 1899, "The irreducible concomitants of any number of binary quartics" and in 1900 he introduced "young tableaus" the method for which he is best remembered; appointed as lecturer at Selwyn College in 1901 and Fellow at Clare in 1905 where he also became Bursar; married Edith Clara in 1907; ordained in 1908 and became a Curate at Christ Church, Hastings; also awarded a Sc. D from Cambridge; then parish priest at Birdbrook, Essex where he lived for the rest of his life, combining successfully the work of a parish priest with his researches in the theory of the algebra of groups. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934; he died on 15 December 1940. See obituary in Clare Association Annual 1947, pp. 99-101
Matriculated at Clare, 1960.
Philip Whitwell Wilson was born in Westmorland, Cumbria, the son of I. Whitwell Wilson, a Justice of the Peace, and Annie Bagster.
He was educated at Kendal Grammar School.
Admitted to Clare College in 1894.
President of the Cambridge Union, and was also one of the first editors of the literary magazine Granta.
He worked in the Press Gallery in the House of Commons for twelve years immediately after leaving Clare and was an MP for St. Pancras (South) between 1906 - 1910. He also went on to write for the New York Times when he moved to America.
Probably the son of John Wilson, Rector of Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire
Admitted pensioner at Clare College on 15 September 1663
Matriculated 1663
B.A. 1667/8
M.A. 1671
Freeman Fellow, 1669-72
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 19 March 1670/1
Rector of Compton Basset, Wiltshire, 1671
Founded two scholarships at Clare
Died 1724
Master of Clare College, 1929-1939
Born on 29 October 1871 and was the son of Daniel Wilson of Melbourne, Australia
School - Trinity College, Melbourne.
Admitted at Clare College on 10 October 1892 and matriculated Michaelmas 1892
B.A. (5th Wrangler ) 1895; (Maths. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class, 1896); M.A. 1899
Fellow, 1897-1929
Master, 1929-39
Junior Proctor, 1905-06
M.P. for the University, 1929-35
Vice-Chancellor, 1935-37
Secretary of the University Financial Board, 1920-6
Treasurer, 1926-29
Hon. D.C.L., Durham, 1937
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, Unattached List, T.F.; General Staff Officer, War Office; O.B.E.; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; mentioned twice in Secretary of State's List for 'valuable services')
19 December 1899 married Margaret Mabel, eldest daughter of the Revd John Edward Parker Bartlett, Rector of Barnham Broom, Norfolk .
Of The River House, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire in 1952
Died on 13 July 1958
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 in 1804, the 3rd son of the Revd Edmund Williamson, Rector of Campton, Bedfordshire
School - Westminster
Admitted as a pensioner at St John's College on 15 June 1820 but did not reside
Admitted as a pensioner at Clare on 2 Sept 1820
Matriculated Michaelmas 1821
Scholar, 1822
Bell Scholar, 1822
B.A. (2nd Wrangler, 2nd Smith's prize) 1825
M.A. 1828
B.D. 1843
Fellow, 1827-50
Tutor, 1839-50
Admitted ad eundem at Oxford, 1845
Admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 10 June 1825
Called to the Bar, 18 May 1830
Practised as an Equity Draftsman and Conveyancer until his return to Clare in 1839
Ordained deacon (Lichfield), 27 June 1841; priest (Ely), 5 June 1842
Rector of Datchworth, Hertfordshire, 1849-75
9 April 1850 married Jane Hutchinson, daughter of William Ferguson, M.D., Inspector-General of Military Hospitals
Died on 17 December 1875
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
Master of Clare College, 1736-1762
Born in Grantham, Lincs.
Admitted sizar at Clare on 3 July 1708 and matriculated in 1708.
B.A. 1711/2
M.A. 1715
D.D. 1728
Fellow, 1714
Taxor, 1720
Master of Clare, 1736-62 .
Vice-Chancellor, 1736-7, and 1751-2.
Ordained deacon (London) on 19 December 1714; priest (Ely) 23 September 1716.
Vicar of Madingley, Cambridgeshire , 1721-30 .
Vicar of Everton, Bedfordshire , 1730-2 .
Vicar of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, Middlesex , 1731-62 .
Prebend of St Paul's, London, 1732-62 .
Sub-dean of York, 1750-62 .
Died in College, 16 September 1762.
Left his fortune for the building of the College Chapel.
Born on 9 December 1667, the son of Josiah, Rector of Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire
School - Tamworth
Admitted as a sizar at Clare on 30 June 1686
Matriculated - 1687
B.A. 1689/90
M.A. 1693
Fellow, 1691
Sept 1693 - Ordained deacon (Lichfield)
Chaplain to Bishop Moore, of Norwich
1697-98 - Rector of Drayton, Norfolk
1698-1703 - Vicar of Lowestoft and Kessingland, Suffolk
1702-1710 - Succeeded Newton as Lucasian Professor and one of the first to popularise the Newtonian theories
1707 - Boyle Lecturer
30 Oct 1710 - Banished from the University for an essay which expounded Arian doctrines
Went to London and lectured there and at Bristol, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells on various subjects, comprising meteors, eclipses, and earthquakes, connecting them more or less with the fulfilment of biblical prophecies
Advocated a number of theories of which the most famous was that the Tartars were the lost tribes of XISR
Married Ruth, daughter of Revd George Antrobus, Master of Tamworth School in 1699
Died on 22 August 1752, aged 84