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Clare College is a college of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, the second oldest surviving college after Peterhouse
Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 284 undergraduates, 130 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest University_of_Cambridge/Colleges in Cambridge, except for certain colleges that admit only women, graduates, or mature studen...
.

Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens, which form part of what is known as the Backs, the back of the colleges that overlook the River Cam
River Cam

The River Cam is a tributary of the River Great Ouse in the east of England. The two rivers join to the south of Ely at Pope's Corner. The Great Ouse connects the Cam to Canals of Great Britain and to the North Sea at King's Lynn....
. The current Master is Anthony (Tony) J Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History.

college was founded in 1326 by the university's Chancellor, Richard de Badew, and named University Hall.






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Clare College is a college of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
, the second oldest surviving college after Peterhouse
Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 284 undergraduates, 130 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest University_of_Cambridge/Colleges in Cambridge, except for certain colleges that admit only women, graduates, or mature studen...
.

Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens, which form part of what is known as the Backs, the back of the colleges that overlook the River Cam
River Cam

The River Cam is a tributary of the River Great Ouse in the east of England. The two rivers join to the south of Ely at Pope's Corner. The Great Ouse connects the Cam to Canals of Great Britain and to the North Sea at King's Lynn....
. The current Master is Anthony (Tony) J Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History.

History

The college was founded in 1326 by the university's Chancellor, Richard de Badew, and named University Hall. Providing maintenance for only two fellows, it soon hit financial hardship. In 1338, the college was refounded as Clare Hall by an endowment from Elizabeth de Clare
Elizabeth de Clare

Elizabeth de Clare was the heiress to the lordships of Clare, Suffolk in England and Usk in Wales. She was one of three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre, and sister of the infant fourth earl, also Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Hertford....
, a granddaughter of Edward I
Edward I of England

Edward I , popularly known as Longshanks, the English Justinian, and the Hammer of the Scots , was a House of Plantagenet King of England who achieved historical fame by conquering large parts of Wales and almost succeeding in doing the same to Scotland....
, which provided for twenty fellows and ten students.

The college was known as Clare Hall until 1856, when it changed its name to Clare College. A new Clare Hall
Clare Hall, Cambridge

Clare Hall is a College for Advanced Study in the University of Cambridge.Informality is a defining value at Clare Hall and this contributes to its unique character....
 was founded by Clare as a postgraduate institution in 1966.
Welcome To Clare
Clare's Old Court, a Grade I listed building
Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
, which frames King's College Chapel
King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge, it is referred to as King's within the university....
 as the left border of one of the most celebrated architectural vistas in England, was built between 1638 and 1715, with a long interruption for the English Civil War
English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Roundhead and Cavalier. The First English Civil War and Second English Civil War civil wars pitted the supporters of Charles I of England against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the Third English Civil War saw fighting between supporters...
. The period spans the arrival of true classicism
Classicism

File:Nicolas Poussin 055.jpgClassicism, in the The Arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seeks to emulate....
 into the mainstream of British architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
. Its progress can be traced in the marked differences between the oldest wing to the north, which still has vaulting and other features in the unbroken tradition of English Gothic
Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
, and the final southern block, which shows a fully articulated classic style.
Clare Bridge 2003
The college's chapel was built in 1763 and designed by James Burrough. Its altarpiece is Annunciation by Cipriani
Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Giovanni Battista Cipriani , Italy Painting and engraver, Pistoia by descent, was born in Florence....
.

Clare has a much-photographed bridge over the river which has fourteen stone balls decorating it. One of the balls has a missing section. A number of apocryphal stories circulate concerning this - the one most commonly cited by members of college is that the original builder of the bridge was not paid the full amount for his work and so removed the segment to balance the difference in payment. A more likely explanation is that a wedge of stone cemented into the ball as part of a repair job became loose and fell out, presumably still lying on the river bed. The repair work is necessary when a stone ball becomes worn around the metal rod on which it is secured to the bridge; a wedge of stone is removed from the base of the ball (around the rod) in order to free it, it is then turned sideways, a hole is drilled at the new base to receive the rod, and the wedge-shaped gap is filled with a new piece of stone. This can be observed on other balls on the same bridge, where the seam between the main ball and the replacement wedge is visible and tangible, though difficult to spot as a repaired ball is always aligned to have the new wedge facing outwards. The bridge is the oldest of Cambridge's current bridges
List of bridges in Cambridge

The following is a list and brief history of the bridges in Cambridge, England, principally those over the River Cam.The River Cam enters Cambridge from the south west of the city and heads north past many of the historic colleges of the University of Cambridge along the open area known as The Backs....
.

Recently building work has finished on a new court at Clare. This has created more student accomodation and conference facilities and is due to open fully in summer 2009.

College life

Clare is known as a liberal and progressive college. In 1972 it became one of the three male Cambridge colleges that led the way in admitting female undergraduates. Clare continues in this tradition and has won praise for the transparency of its admissions process

Clare is known as one of the most musical colleges in Cambridge. Its is internationally recognised and has performed all over the world. Many Clare students play instruments, and the college orchestra () is well known. Like most Cambridge colleges, Clare allows students to have a piano in their college rooms. Clare holds popular jazz
Jazz

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 and drum'n'bass nights in its cellars.

Student paper

Clare's student paper, Clareification
Clareification

Clareification is the weekly student newsletter of Clare College, Cambridge, a college of University of Cambridge. One of the things that distinguished Clare as a particularly friendly and informal college was the staff's tolerance of the publication prior to the 2007 controversy....
, published by the Union of Clare Students
Union of Clare Students

The Union of Clare Students is the name of the Junior Common Room of Clare College, Cambridge. The Union represents the students of the college and provides its members with a range of services and support....
 won "Best University College Paper" in "The Cambridge Student" in 2005 and is filled with satirical articles mocking Cambridge traditions, reports on silly student antics, and college gossip in the infamous "Clareifornication" column. It is often the subject of criticism by the staff for risqué and tasteless content, and was described by the Master, Professor Badger, as "an unholy cross between the Sun and Private Eye". On February 3 2007, the college cut its funding to the paper, causing publications to be suspended for a period of a few weeks. This occurred as a result of the outcry following the publication of the February 2 edition, a guest-edited edition which was retitled "Crucification". In addition to the paper's usual satirical attacks on Christianity, this edition also featured several articles which mocked Islam, including a reproduction of the cartoon illustration of the prophet Mohammed. This was the same cartoon which provoked international protest
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after twelve editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005....
 when it first appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten
Jyllands-Posten

, commonly shortened to Jyllands-Posten or JP, is a Denmark daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Viby J, a suburb of ?rhus, and with a weekday circulation of approximately 150,000 copies, it is the largest-selling newspaper in Denmark....
 in September 2005.

College grace

Clare College, Scholars' Garden
Oculi omnium in te sperant Domine:
Tu das iis escam eorum in tempore opportuno.
Aperis tu manum tuam:
Et imples omne animal benedictione tua.
Sanctifica nos, quaesumus, Domine, per verbum
et orationem, istisque tuis donis, quae de tua
bonitate sumus accepturi, benedicito
per Christum Dominum nostrum,
Amen


Translated into English, this reads:

The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord,
And thou givest them their food in due season.
Thou openest thy hand,
And fillest every living thing with thy blessing.
Sanctify us, we beseech thee, O Lord, by thy
word and our petition; and bless these thy gifts which
of thy bounty we are about to receive,
through Christ our Lord.
Amen


Academic performance

The undergraduates of Clare College have usually performed very well based on the results published in the Tompkins Table, placing Clare within the top ten colleges from 2000 to 2005. The notable exceptions to this have been 2006 where Clare finished in 12th place and of 2007 where Clare slipped to 17th place. Although not an official listing done by the University, the Tompkins Table does offer an impartial account of how the undergraduates of individual colleges perform in their finals.

Entrance into Clare College is very competitive and can be best seen from the published list of offers given to students and the number of applicants broken down by subject. As an approximate indication, one out of every five applicants is offered a place in Clare, with that varying greatly between the different subjects offered.

College Coat of Arms

Clare Crest
The Clare coat of arms is divided into two equal parts. On the left hand side there are the three chevrons of the de Clare family. On the other side of the shield is the Cross, the symbol of the Christian roots of the College since its foundation.

Famous or notable alumni

Clare Bridge, May Ball 2005
*Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner
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, British judge and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
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  • Peter Ackroyd
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    , author
  • Robyn Addison
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    , actor, played Sarah Boyer in Survivors
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     and Joanne Coldwell in Casualty
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    , appeared in episodes of The Street
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     and Dalziel and Pascoe
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  • Anthony Appiah, philosopher
  • Sir Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby of Brandon, botanist and natural scientist, Master of the College 1959-1967, Vice-Chancellor
    Vice-Chancellor

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     of the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

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     1967-1969, founded Clare Hall, Cambridge
  • Peter Asprey, choral director, founded Ensemble Illuminati and Stile Antico
  • Edward Atkinson, Master of the College 1856-1915, Vice-Chancellor
    Vice-Chancellor

    A Vice-Chancellor of a university in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, India other Commonwealth of Nations countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the chief executive of the University....
     of the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

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     1862-1863
  • Sir David Attenborough
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    , naturalist
  • John Fleetwood Baker, Baron Baker of Windrush, scientist and engineer, Professor of Mechanical Sciences
    Professor of Engineering, Cambridge University

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     (latterly renamed Professor of Engineering) at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

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    , 1943-1970
  • Amiya Charan Banerjee
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    , mathematician, Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University
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     1953-1955
  • Nicholas Bannan, specialist in choral singing and music education
  • Sabine Baring-Gould
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    , Victorian novelist
  • Sir Max Bemrose
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    , industrialist
  • John Berryman
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    , American poet
  • Samuel Blythe, Master of the College 1678-1713, Vice-Chancellor
    Vice-Chancellor

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     of the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

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     1684-1685, benefactor
  • Ivor Bolton, conductor and musical director, founded the St James's Baroque Players, founder and Musical Director of the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, regular conductor at the Bavarian State Opera
    Bavarian State Opera

    The Bayerische Staatsoper is an opera company based in Munich, Germany in existence since 1653. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra....
    , Principal Conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
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  • Sir John Boyd
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    Sir John Dixon Ikle Boyd KCMG was the master of Churchill College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge from 1996 to 2006. He has also been the Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Japan, between 1992 and 1996....
    , Master of Churchill College, Cambridge
    Churchill College, Cambridge

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     1996-2006
  • Harvey Brough, musician and composer, founded Harvey and the Wallbangers
  • David Cannadine
    David Cannadine

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    , historian
  • Hector Munro Chadwick
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    Hector Munro Chadwick was an England scholar. He is known as a philologist and historian of literature. With his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, he compiled a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry, published 1932-1940....
    , philologist and historian, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
    Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

    The Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon is the senior List_of_Professorships_at_the_University_of_Cambridge in Old English language at the University of Cambridge....
     at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1912-1941
  • Nicholas Collon, musician, co-founded Aurora Orchestra and Cappella Artois
  • Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
    Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

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    , British general in the American Revolutionary War
    American Revolutionary War

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  • Christian Coulson
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    , actor
  • Robert Court, Head Master of Birkdale School
    Birkdale School

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  • Ralph Cudworth
    Ralph Cudworth

    Ralph Cudworth was an English philosopher, the leader of the Cambridge Platonists....
    , philosopher and theologian, leader of the Cambridge Platonists
    Cambridge Platonists

    The Cambridge Platonists were a group of philosophers at University of Cambridge in the middle of the 17th century ....
    , Master of the College 1644-1650, Regius Professor of Hebrew
    Regius Professor of Hebrew

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     at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1645-1688
  • Sir Ernest De Silva, Sri Lankan philanthrophist
  • Richard Egarr
    Richard Egarr

    Richard Egarr is a United Kingdom keyboard performer and conducting. He received his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and as Organ organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge....
    , harpsichordist and fortepianist, Musical Director of the Academy of Ancient Music
    Academy of Ancient Music

    The Academy of Ancient Music is a Historically informed performance orchestra based in London, re-founded by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in 1973 and named after an original organisation of the 18th century....
  • Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
    Geoffrey Rudolph Elton

    Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a British historian of the Tudor period....
    , historian of the Tudor period, Regius Professor of Modern History
    Regius Professor of Modern History (Cambridge)

    Regius Professor of Modern History is one of the senior List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge in history at University of Cambridge....
     at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1983-1988
  • Nicholas Ferrar
    Nicholas Ferrar

    Nicholas Ferrar was an English scholar, courtier, businessman and man of religion. Ordained deacon in the Church of England, he retreated with his extended family to the manor of Great Gidding in Huntingdonshire, where he lived the rest of his life....
    , religious leader
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    Trent Ford

    Trent Ford is an American actor and Model ....
    , American actor and model
  • Sir Michael Le Fanu
    Michael Le Fanu

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    , Admiral of the Fleet of the Royal Navy
    Royal Navy

    The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
  • Henry Louis Gates, African-American academic
  • Sir Paul Girvan
    Paul Girvan (judge)

    Sir Paul Girvan, styled Rt Hon Lord Justice Girvan was born in 1948. Educated at Larne Grammar School, Belfast Royal Academy, Clare College, Cambridge and Queen's University, Belfast; Created Knight Bachelor on his appointment to as a Justice of the High Court of Northern Ireland, 1995....
    , Lord Justice of Appeal
    Lord Justice of Appeal

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    , Supreme Court of Northern Ireland
  • Sir Harry Godwin FRS
    Harry Godwin

    Professor Sir Harry Godwin Fellow of the Royal Society, was a prominent England botanist and ecologist of the 20th century. He had a long association with Clare College, Cambridge....
    , botanist and ecologist, Professor, founded the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research in the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
  • John Guy
    John Guy (historian)

    John Guy is a leading United Kingdom historian and Biography.Born in Australia, he moved to UK with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read History, taking a British undergraduate degree classification....
    , leading Tudor historian and Fellow of the College
  • Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, classicist, historian and archaeologist
  • Sir Charles Hanson, 2nd Baronet
  • Nick Harkaway
    Nick Harkaway

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    , novelist
  • Carr Hervey, Lord Harvey, British MP and eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
    John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol

    John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was an English politician.John Hervey was son of Sir Thomas Hervey of Bury St Edmunds. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge....
  • John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
    John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol

    John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was an English politician.John Hervey was son of Sir Thomas Hervey of Bury St Edmunds. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge....
    , British MP and supporter of the Hanoverian Succession
  • John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, British MP and eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
    John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol

    John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol was an English politician.John Hervey was son of Sir Thomas Hervey of Bury St Edmunds. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge....
     by his second marriage
  • James Rendel Harris, biblical scholar, theologian, palaeographer and mathematician
  • Kit Hesketh-Harvey
    Kit Hesketh-Harvey

    Kit Hesketh-Harvey is a British comic performer, translator and scriptwriter.He was educated as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and then Tonbridge School in Kent before moving on as a choral scholar under John Rutter to Clare College, Cambridge, later becoming a member of the Cambridge Footlights....
    , comic performer and scriptwriter
  • Sir Bob Hepple, QC, FBA, attorney, advocate and anti-apartheid campaigner in South Africa
    South Africa

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     until 1963, specialist in labour law, industrial relations, equality and anti-discrimination law, Master of the College 1993-2003, Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1995-2001
  • David Howarth
    David Howarth

    David Ross Howarth is a United Kingdom Liberal Democrats politician and Member of Parliament for Cambridge since 2005....
    , Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge and Fellow of the College
  • Martin How
    Martin How

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    , composer and organist
  • Thomas McKenny Hughes
    Thomas McKenny Hughes

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    , Woodwardian Professor of Geology
    Woodwardian Professor of Geology

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     at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

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     1873-1917
  • Edward I.G. Hunt, musician and director
  • Tim Hunt
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    , biochemist
  • Norman L. Jones, Tudor historian and Head of Department of History, Utah State University
    Utah State University

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  • James Butler Knill Kelly
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    , Anglican Bishop of Newfoundland
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  • Andrew Key, British Ambassador to Macedonia, 2007
  • Robert Key
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    , Conservative
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     MP
  • Matt Kirshen
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    , stand-up comedian
  • Frances Kirwan
    Frances Kirwan

    Frances Clare Kirwan Royal Society is a United Kingdom mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.Educated at Oxford High School , she studied at the University of Cambridge....
    , Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University
  • Tessa Knighton, hispanist, musicologist, editor of Early Music and Fellow of the College
  • Hugh Latimer
    Hugh Latimer

    Hugh Latimer was the bishop of Worcester, and by his death he became a famous martyr among Protestants and the Church of England.Latimer was born into a family of farmers in Thurcaston, Leicestershire....
    , Chaplain to Henry VIII, Bishop of Worcester and martyr
  • Sue Lenier
    Sue Lenier

    Susan Jennifer Lenier is an English people writer. She published two books of poetry and a number of plays....
    , poet and playwright
  • Randy Lerner
    Randy Lerner

    Randolph D. Lerner is an United States entrepreneur and sports team owner.Lerner has been the owner of the American football team, the Cleveland Browns, of the National Football League since October 2002, and the Chairman of Aston Villa F.C....
    , American entrepreneur, owner of Aston Villa and Cleveland Browns
  • Rebecca Levene
    Rebecca Levene

    Rebecca Levene is a United Kingdom author and editor, best known for editing Virgin's Virgin New Adventures series of original fiction Doctor Who novels....
    , author of Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
     novels
  • Peter Lilley
    Peter Lilley

    Peter Bruce Lilley is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament MP since 1983. He currently represents the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden and, prior to boundary changes, represented St Albans which was its predecessor seat....
    , Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)

    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
     MP
  • Kurt Lipstein, QC, German-born lawyer, refugee from Nazism
    Nazism

    Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
    , specialist in Roman law
    Roman law

    Roman law is the law system of ancient Rome. As used in the West the term commonly refers to legal developments prior to the Roman/Byzantine state's adopting Greek language as its official language in the 7th century....
     and conflict of laws
    Conflict of laws

    Conflict of laws is that branch of international law and intranational interstate law that regulates all lawsuits involving a "foreign" law element where different judgments will result depending on which jurisdiction's laws are applied as the lex causae....
     within private international law
    International law

    Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of states and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond domestic legal interpretation and enforcement....
     and public international law and pioneer in comparative law
    Comparative law

    Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the Civil law , socialist law, Sharia, Hindu law, and Chinese law....
    , Fellow of the College 1956-2006, Professor of Comparative Law
    Comparative law

    Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the Civil law , socialist law, Sharia, Hindu law, and Chinese law....
     at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1973-1976
  • Liz Lloyd
    Liz Lloyd

    Liz Lloyd is the current Deputy Chief of Staff for the Tony Blair administration. She graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, in 1993 before becoming a researcher for Tony Blair when he was Shadow Home Secretary....
    , adviser to former Prime Minister Tony Blair
    Tony Blair

    Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
  • Tim Loughton
    Tim Loughton

    Timothy Paul Loughton is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician, and has been Member of Parliament for East Worthing and Shoreham since the United Kingdom general election, 1997....
    , Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)

    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
     MP
  • Ben Lumsden, musician and songwriter, bassist in former rock
    Rock music

    Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
     band Grace
  • Andrew Manze
    Andrew Manze

    Andrew Manze is an English baroque violinist and conductor.Having first started playing the baroque violin while studying Classics at Cambridge University, he went on to study with Simon Standage, one of the founding members of The English Concert, at the Royal Academy of Music, followed by further studies with Lucy van Dael at The Hague a...
    , baroque violinist and broadcaster, Musical Director of The English Concert
    The English Concert

    The English Concert is a baroque orchestra playing on period instruments based in London. Founded in 1972 and directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock for 30 years, it is now directed by harpsichordist Harry Bicket....
  • Zoë Martlew, cellist
  • Paul Mellon
    Paul Mellon

    Paul Mellon Order of the British Empire was an American philanthropist, thoroughbred horse racing owner/horse breeding. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame....
    , benefactor
  • Thomas Merton
    Thomas Merton

    Thomas Merton was a 20th century Roman Catholic Church writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, in the U.S. state of Kentucky, Merton was a poet, a social activism, a student of comparative religion as well as the author of numerous works on spirituality....
    , writer, Catholic thinker and monk
  • John Moore
    John Moore (Bishop of Ely)

    John Moore was an England cleric, scholar, and book collector. He was bishop of Norwich and bishop of Ely .At the time of his death, Moore's collection of books and papers contained over 30,000 items, and may have been the largest in England....
    , Bishop of Ely
    Bishop of Ely

    The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire , together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its Episcopal see in the Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the Ely Cathedral....
     1707-1714
  • Mohan Munasinghe
    Mohan Munasinghe

    Mohan Munasinghe is an internationally-recognized expert on energy, sustainable development and climate change. A Sri Lankan-born intellectual, he is the Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute for Development , Sri Lanka, and Director-General of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, UK....
    , environmental campaigner, founder of , vice chair of IPCC
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body tasked to risk management of climate change caused by human activity....
     which won Nobel Peace Prize 2007 jointly with Al Gore
  • Arthur Darby Nock, classicist and historian of religion
  • Sir Roger Norrington
    Roger Norrington

    Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, Order of the British Empire is a British conducting. He is the son of Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington and the brother of Humphrey Thomas Norrington....
    , conductor, founded the London Classical Players
    London Classical Players

    The London Classical Players was a British orchestra that specialized in music following historically informed performance practices and orchestral performances on period musical instruments....
  • Matthew Parris
    Matthew Parris

    Matthew Parris is an England journalist and former Conservative Party UK politics....
    , broadcaster, political analyst and former Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)

    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
     MP
  • The Revd Canon Arthur Robert Peacocke, MBE
    Arthur Peacocke

    The Reverend Canon Arthur Robert Peacocke Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom theologian and scientist....
    , scientist and theologian, Dean of the College 1973-1984
  • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

    Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of Great Britain was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century....
    , Prime Minister of Great Britain
  • Sir Brian Pippard
    Brian Pippard

    Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, ScD, Fellow of the Royal Society , was a United Kingdom physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1984 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, of which he was the first President....
    , first President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Cavendish Professor of Physics
    Cavendish Professor of Physics

    The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior Professorships in Physics at University of Cambridge and was founded by grace of 9 February 1871 alongside the famous Cavendish Laboratory which was completed three years later....
     at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1971-1984
  • James Raven, Professor of History at the University of Essex
    University of Essex

    The University of Essex is a United Kingdom campus university located near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965, the University has established itself as a centre of excellence for humanities and social sciences, and is highly rated in the United Kingdom and the world for the fields of s...
  • William Brian Reddaway, economist, Professor of Political Economy
    Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge University

    The Professorship of Political Economy is a List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1828....
     at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1969-1980
  • Geoffrey Robinson
    Geoffrey Robinson

    Geoffrey Robinson has been a United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Coventry North West North West, a safe Labour seat, since a by-election on 4 March 1976 caused by the death of former MP Maurice Edelman....
    , Labour
    Labour Party (UK)

    The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
     MP
  • George Ruggle, early seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and playwright
  • John Rutter
    John Rutter

    John Milford Rutter Order of the British Empire is an England composer, choir conducting, editing, arranger and record producer.Born in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener....
    , composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer
  • Siegfried Sassoon
    Siegfried Sassoon

    Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, Commander of British Empire Military Cross was an English poetry and author. He became known as a writer of satire anti-war poetry during World War I....
    , war poet
  • Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS, geologist, Professor at the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research and the Department of Earth Sciences
    University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences

    The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. The main location of the department is at the University of Cambridge Downing Site, Downing St....
     in the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
  • Cecil Sharp
    Cecil Sharp

    Cecil James Sharp was the founding father of the Roots revival in England in the early twentieth century, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and publishing them....
    , folklorist and ethnographer
  • Rupert Sheldrake
    Rupert Sheldrake

    Rupert Sheldrake is a United Kingdom former biochemistry and plant physiologist who now researches and writes on parapsychology and other controversial subjects....
    , scientist
  • Ed Snow, stage name Skankhammer, musician and songwriter, drummer in "cult" ska
    Ska

    Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and Calypso music with United States jazz and rhythm and blues....
     band 7 Seconds of Love
    7 Seconds of Love

    7 Seconds of Love are an England ska band fronted by musician and animator Joel Veitch that writes and plays songs with often random, silly lyrics....
  • Matthew Stadlen, producer, editor and journalist for BBC News
    BBC News

    BBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
    , presents Five Minutes With...
  • Richard Stilgoe
    Richard Stilgoe

    Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe Order of the British Empire is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician. He is noted for clever wordplay as much as for his music....
    , songwriter, lyricist and musician
  • Sam Swallow, musician and songwriter, keyboardist in former rock
    Rock music

    Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
     band Grace, guest keyboardist with pop
    Pop music

    Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
     band The Hoosiers
    The Hoosiers

    The Hoosiers are a band from the UK and Sweden. The band members are Irwin Sparkes , Martin Skarendahl and Alphonso Sharland . Their first single "Worried About Ray" reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart in July 2007....
  • Harold McCarter Taylor
    Harold McCarter Taylor

    Harold McCarter Taylor CBE Efficiency Decoration was a New Zealand-born British mathematician, theoretical physicist and academic administrator, but is best known as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Taylor, n?e Sills, of the three volumes of Anglo-Saxon Architecture, published between 1965 and 19...
    , architectural historian
  • Richard Taylor
    Richard Taylor

    Richard Taylor may refer to:*Richard Taylor , father of U.S. president Zachary Taylor*Richard Taylor , Confederate general in the American Civil War...
    , Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
  • Dr Richard Taylor
    Richard Taylor (UK politician)

    Richard Thomas Taylor, Member of Parliament, Royal College of Physicians is an England medical doctor turned politician, Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest ....
    , Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern
    Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern

    Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern is a political party based in Kidderminster, United Kingdom. It grew out of the campaign to restore the casualty unit at Kidderminster Hospital, and the National Health Service is still its primary focus, but the party has since diversified....
     MP
  • Sir Henry Thirkill, physicist, Master of the College 1939-1958, Vice-Chancellor
    Vice-Chancellor

    A Vice-Chancellor of a university in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, India other Commonwealth of Nations countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the chief executive of the University....
     of the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1945-1947
  • Robin Ticciati
    Robin Ticciati

    Robin Ticciati is a British conductor of Italian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was a composer and arranger. His older brother is a violinist....
    , conductor, pianist, percussionist and violinist, co-founded Aurora Orchestra, Musical Director and Artistic Advisor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director of Glyndebourne on Tour
    Glyndebourne Festival Opera

    Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an list of opera festivals held at Glyndebourne, a country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, except in 1993, when the theatre was being rebuilt....
  • John Tillotson
    John Tillotson

    John Tillotson was an Archbishop of Canterbury ....
    , Archbishop of Canterbury
    Archbishop of Canterbury

    The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
     1691-1694
  • Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
    Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney

    Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney , was a British politician who held several important Cabinet posts in the second half of the 18th century....
    , senior British politician after whom Sydney
    Sydney

    Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
    , Australia
    Australia

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     was named
  • Richard Wainwright
    Richard Wainwright

    Richard Scurrah Wainwright was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Colne Valley , 1966-70 and February 1974-87.As a child he attended the independent boys school at Shrewsbury....
    , Liberal
    Liberal Party (UK)

    The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
     MP
  • Sir John Waldron
    John Waldron (police officer)

    Sir John Lovegrove Waldron, Royal Victorian Order was a United Kingdom police officer who served as Chief Constable of Berkshire Constabulary from 1954 to 1958 and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis of the London Metropolitan Police Service from 1968 to 1972....
    , Commissioner
    Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

    The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the head of London's Metropolitan Police Service, classing the holder as a chief police officer....
     of the Metropolitan Police
    Metropolitan Police Service

    The Metropolitan Police Service is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City of London which is the responsibility of a City of London Police....
    , 1968-1972
  • Prof Mark Walport, director of Wellcome Trust
    Wellcome Trust

    The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around ?15 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research....
  • Christopher Wandesford
    Christopher Wandesford

    Christopher Wandesford , Lord Deputy of Ireland, was the son of Sir George Wandesford of Kirklington, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, and was born on 24 September 1592....
    , Lord Deputy of Ireland
    Lord Deputy of Ireland

    The Lord Deputy was the King's representative and head of the Irish executive during the Kingdom of Ireland.*Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare ...
     in 1640
  • James D. Watson
    James D. Watson

    James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biology, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer...
    , double helix discoverer and human genome advocate
  • Clive Wearing
    Clive Wearing

    Clive Wearing is a United Kingdom musicologist, Conductor , and keyboardist suffering from an acute and long lasting case of anterograde amnesia....
    , musician, musicologist, broadcaster and amnesiac
  • Abraham Whelock, seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and Arabist
  • William Whiston
    William Whiston

    William Whiston , was as England theologian, historian, and mathematician. He is probably best known for his translation of the Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus, his A New Theory of the Earth, and his Arianism....
    , Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
     1702-1711, theologian
  • William Whitehead
    William Whitehead

    __FORCETOC__William Whitehead, , was an England poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position....
    , Poet Laureate
    Poet Laureate

    A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events....
     1757-1785
  • Andrew Wiles
    Andrew Wiles

    Sir Andrew John Wiles Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society is a United Kingdom mathematician and a professor at Princeton University, specialising in number theory....
    , mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem
    Fermat's Last Theorem

    Fermat's Last Theorem is the name of the statement in number theory that states that:or, more precisely:In 1637 Pierre de Fermat wrote, in his copy of Claude Gaspard Bachet de M?ziriac's translation of the famous Arithmetica of Diophantus, "I have a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to con...
  • The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams
    Rowan Williams

    Rowan Douglas Williams is an Anglican Communion bishop and theologian. He is the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003....
    , Dean of the College 1984-1986, Archbishop of Canterbury
    Archbishop of Canterbury

    The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
     2003-present
  • Michael Wills
    Michael Wills

    Michael David Wills is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party member of Parliament for Swindon North , and was first elected in 1997....
    , Labour
    Labour Party (UK)

    The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
     MP
  • Lord Wilson of High Wray
    Paul Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray

    Paul Norman Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray Venerable Order of Saint John Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom engineer, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria and Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation....
    , Governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant
    Lord Lieutenant

    The title Lord Lieutenant is given to the British monarch's personal representatives in the United Kingdom, usually in a county or similar circumscription, with varying tasks throughout history....
     of Cumbria
    Cumbria

    Cumbria is a non-metropolitan county in the North West England of England. Cumbria came into existence as a county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
  • Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton
    Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton

    Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton Order of the Bath is a cross bench member of the United Kingdom House of Lords.Richard Wilson was born in Glamorgan....
    , civil servant and Cabinet Secretary
    Cabinet Secretary

    A Cabinet Secretary is almost always a senior official who provides services and advice to a Cabinet of Ministers. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service....
    , Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
    Emmanuel College, Cambridge

    Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican Order friary....


Masters of Clare College

List of Masters of Clare College: Walter de Thaxted - 1326 (year of installation) (still University Hall at this time)
Ralph Kerdington - 1342 (no longer University Hall; now Clare Hall)
Nicholas de Brunne - 1359
John de Donewich - 1371
John de Charteresse - 1392
William Radwinter - 1400
William Wymbyll - 1421
William Gull - 1440
William Wilflete - 1446
John Millington - 1455
Thomas Stoyll - 1466
Richard Stubbs - 1470
Gabriel Silvester - 1496
William Woodruff - 1506
Edmund Natures - 1514
John Crayford - 1530
Roland Swynbourne - 1539
John Madew - 1549
Roland Swynbourne - 1553
Thomas Bayly - 1557
Edward Leeds - 1560
Thomas Byng - 1571


William Smith - 1601
Robert Scott - 1612
Thomas Paske
Thomas Paske

Thomas Paske, D.D. , was an English clergyman and academic, deprived as a royalist....
 - 1620
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth

Ralph Cudworth was an English philosopher, the leader of the Cambridge Platonists....
 - 1645
Theophilus Dillingham - 1654
Thomas Paske - 1660
Theophilus Dillingham - 1661
Samuel Blythe - 1678
William Grigg - 1713
Charles Morgan - 1726
John Wilcox - 1736
Peter Godard - 1762
John Torkington - 1781
William Webb - 1815
Edward Atkinson - 1856 (now refounded as Clare College)
William Mollinson - 1915
Godfrey Wilson - 1929
Henry Thirkill - 1939
Eric Ashby - 1958
Robin Matthews - 1975
Bob Hepple - 1993
Anthony Badger - 2003


See also

Category:Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge


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