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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.

John Wilson (admitted 1663) was a Freeman Fellow, 1669 - 1672.

Matriculated at Clare College in 1892 and was Master of Clare 1929-1939.

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.

Matriculated at Clare, 1944.

Master of Clare College (1815-1856).

Elected to a Fellowship in 1799.
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.

He married the daughter of the Rev. T.V. Gould, his predecessor in the living at Westley.