Letter from Rev. Francis Lodington offering a donation of his accumulated College dividends to augment Exeter, Freeman and Diggons Fellowships.
Includes:
(1) degree and matriculation accounts, 1778-1779
(2) accounts of debts owed to Stephenson and money owed by him at Cambridge
(3) inventories of furniture, scientific apparatus and valuables at Cambridge, and books, furniture, plate, shop goods (chiefly fabrics, ribbons and wallpapers), clothes and money at Scarborough (Yorks) with 2 bonds, 1789
(4) vouchers, 1789-1805
Notes: Mark Anthony Stephenson (admitted 1767, Fellow 1773 - 1790) bequeathed houses in Newborough Street and Awborough Street, Scarborough, to found the Stephenson Scholarship; the properties reverted to Clare College in 1843, but a legal dispute over the Newborough Street property absorbed most of the value of the benefaction. The Awborough Street houses were sold in 1852.
With some associated correspondence.
Papers relating to the William Senior Fund including a copy of the will of William Senior.
Printed list of benefactors to the College to 1886. Includes brief background to the benefaction made to the College by Lady Clare
Donors book containing the names of donors for the erection of a lantern in the College archway, in memory of those who attended military staff courses at Clare College, 1914-1918. Includes lists of names of members of courses.