List of Masters of Clare College, Cambridge
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The following have been Masters of Clare College, Cambridge:
- 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 CrayfordJohn CrayfordJohn Crayford was a Master of both Clare College, Cambridge and University College, Oxford, England. Martyn was unusual in being a Master of colleges at both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He was the only Master of University College to also have been a Master at a Cambridge...
- 1530 - Roland Swynbourne - 1539
- John Madew - 1549
- Roland Swynbourne - 1553
- Thomas BaylyThomas BailyThomas Baily was an English Catholic clergyman during the Elizabethan persecutions.-Life:Baily was an undergraduate at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1546. Soon after he became a Fellow of that house and was promoted to the degree of Master of Arts in 1549...
- 1557 - Edward Leeds - 1560
- Thomas ByngThomas ByngThomas Byng was an English academic and lawyer, Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1571.-Life:He matriculated as a sizar at Peterhouse in May 1552, and proceeded B.A. in 1556. He was admitted fellow of his college 7 February 1558, and commenced M.A. 1559, and LL.D. 1570...
- 1571 - William Smith - 1601
- Robert ScottRobert Scott (Master of Clare)Robert Scott was an English churchman and academic, Master of Clare College, Cambridge and Dean of Rochester.-Life:He was baptized in 1569 at Barnston, Essex, and matriculated as sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1588. He graduated B.A. in 1592, and M.A. from Clare College in 1595.He...
- 1612 - Thomas PaskeThomas Paske-Life:He was perhaps son of William Paske, vicar of Hendon, Middlesex, and may have been born there, but the registers do not begin until 1653. William Paske left Hendon for the living of Ashdon, Essex, in 1611; he died before 15 February 1639-40. Thomas was a scholar of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and...
- 1620 - Ralph CudworthRalph CudworthRalph Cudworth was an English philosopher, the leader of the Cambridge Platonists.-Life:Born at Aller, Somerset, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his MA and becoming a Fellow of Emmanuel in 1639. In 1645, he became master of Clare Hall and professor of Hebrew...
- 1645 - Theophilus DillinghamTheophilus DillinghamTheophilus Dillingham was an English churchman and academic, Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge and Archdeacon of Bedford.-Life:The son of Thomas Dillingham, and nephew of Francis Dillingham, he was born at Over Dean, Bedfordshire. He was admitted a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 13...
- 1654 - Thomas Paske - 1660
- Theophilus DillinghamTheophilus DillinghamTheophilus Dillingham was an English churchman and academic, Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge and Archdeacon of Bedford.-Life:The son of Thomas Dillingham, and nephew of Francis Dillingham, he was born at Over Dean, Bedfordshire. He was admitted a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 13...
- 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 MatthewsRobin Matthews (economist)Robert Charles Oliver Matthews was an economist and chess problemist.Matthews was born in Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at...
- 1975 - Bob HeppleBob HeppleSir Bob Hepple QC is a South African born academic and leader in the fields of labour law, tort and discrimination. He taught for much of his career at Cambridge University, University College London and as Chairman of the Industrial Tribunals....
- 1993 - Anthony BadgerTony BadgerAnthony John "Tony" Badger is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Master of Clare College, Cambridge. He is a specialist in post-World War II Southern American political history.-Life:...
- 2003