Clare College, Cambridge: Students/Graduates



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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pronounced /ˈætənb(ə)rə/) OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS (born 8 May 1926 in London, England) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for...

Henry Pering Pellew Crease

Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease (20 August 1823 – 27 November 1905) was a British lawyer, judge, and politician, influential in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. He was the first Attorney General of the united Colony of British...

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, KG, PC (21 July 1693 – 17 November 1768) was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century. He is...

Richard Taylor

Richard Thomas Taylor, MP, FRCP (born 7 July 1934) is an English doctor turned politician, Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest. The son of Thomas Taylor and his wife Mabel Hickley, Taylor was educated at The Leys School - interestingly,...

Geoffrey Robinson

Geoffrey Robinson (born 25 May 1938 in Sheffield) is a businessman and Member of Parliament for Coventry North West (since 1976). He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to December 1998, resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his...

Michael Wills

Michael David Wills (born 20 May 1952, St Pancras) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour member of Parliament for Swindon North, and was first elected in 1997. He is also a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, a position he...

Clifford Dupont

Clifford Walter Dupont (6 December 1905 – 28 June 1978) served in the internationally unrecognized positions as Officer Administrating the Government from 1965 until 1970 and President of Rhodesia from 1970 until 1975. Dupont, a close ally of Prime...

Robert Orledge

Robert Orledge is a leading scholar of early twentieth century French music. He was born in Bath, Somerset on 5 January 1948 and educated at the City of Bath Boys' School (1958-65) and at Clare College, Cambridge (1965-71) where he gained a BA (Hons...

Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot (1978–2007) was a leading and prolific online civic campaigner, a polymath and a scientist, and the first developer with Tom Steinberg at e-democracy charity mySociety. He attended Westminster School and did his degree at Clare...

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work. Siegfried Sassoon was born...

Kit Hesketh-Harvey

Kit Hesketh-Harvey (born Christopher J. Hesketh-Harvey on 30 April 1957 in Nyasaland, now Malawi) is a British comic performer, translator and scriptwriter. He was educated as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and then Tonbridge School in Kent...

Thomas Seaton

The Reverend Thomas Seaton (baptised 2 October 1684, Stamford, Lincolnshire, died 18 August 1741 at Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire), was a Church of England clergyman and religious writer. He was educated at Stamford School and Clare College, Cambridge...

C. V. Durell

Clement Vavasor Durell, born 6 June 1882, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, died South Africa, 10 December 1968, was an English schoolmaster who wrote mathematical textbooks. A son of John Vavasor Durell (1837–1923), Rector of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, and...

Knox Cunningham

Sir Samuel Knox Cunningham, 1st Baronet, QC (3 April 1909 - 29 July 1976) was a Northern Irish Barrister, businessman and politician. As an Ulster Unionist politician at a time when the Unionists were part of the Conservative Party, he was also a...

Nicholas Shackleton

Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937—24 January 2006) was a British geologist and climatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton FRS and great-nephew of...

David Cannadine

Sir David Nicholas Cannadine, FBA (born 1950) is a British historian, known for a number of books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism, and as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially...

Hector Munro Macdonald

Hector Munro Macdonald (January 19, 1865 - May 16, 1935) was a Scottish mathematician, born in Edinburgh in 1865. He researched pure mathematics at Cambridge University after graduating from Aberdeen University with an honours degree. Both of Hector...

Abel J. Jones

Abel John Jones (May 26, 1878 - May 8, 1949), was a Welsh writer. Jones was born in Rhymney, Bedwellty, Monmouthshire. His parents, David Rees Jones and Hannah Jones (née Evans) and his sister Annie and brothers Rees and David Rees spoke only Welsh...

Roger Norrington

Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, CBE (born 16 March 1934) is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and the brother of Humphrey Thomas Norrington. Norrington studied at the Dragon School, Westminster School, Clare College,...

Brian Boydell

Brian Boydell (March 17, 1917 – November 8, 2000) was an Irish composer whose works include orchestral pieces, chamber music, and songs. He was professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin for 20 years, founder of the Dowland Consort, conductor of...

Paul Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray

Paul Norman Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray KStJ OBE (24 October 1908 – 24 February 1980) was a British engineer, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland (1965 to 1974) and of Cumbria (1974 to 1980) and Governor of the BBC. The younger son of Norman...

Andrew Wiles

Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician and a professor at Princeton University, specializing in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. Andrew Wiles's father was Maurice Frank Wiles ...

Matthew Parris

Matthew Francis Parris (born 7 August 1949 in Johannesburg) is an English journalist and former Conservative politician. Parris is the eldest of six children (3 brothers and 2 sisters) and grew up in several British colonies where his father was...

David Day

David Day (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Australian historian. David Day graduated with first-class Honours in History and Political Science from the University of Melbourne and was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Junior...

Richard Stilgoe

Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe OBE (born 28 March 1943) is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician. He is noted for clever wordplay as much as for his music. Stilgoe was born in Camberley, Surrey but brought up in Liverpool—where as lead singer...

Andrew Manze

Andrew Manze (born 14 January 1965, Beckenham) 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...

William Denis Browne

William Charles Denis Browne (3 November 1888 - 4 June 1915), primarily known as Billy to family and as Denis to his friends, was a British composer, pianist, organist and music critic of the early 20th century. He and his close friend, poet Rupert...

Elin Manahan Thomas

Elin Manahan Thomas is a Welsh soprano. Born and bred in Swansea, she was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr, and then won a choral scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge where she gained a starred first in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and completed an...

Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton

Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton GCB (born 11 October 1942) is a cross bench member of the British House of Lords. Richard Wilson was born in Glamorgan. He was educated at Radley College (1956-60 and where he is now head of...

Paul Nicholson

Sir Paul Douglas Nicholson (born 7 March 1938) is an English industrialist and current (2007) Lord Lieutenant of County Durham. Sir Paul was born in Co. Durham and educated at Harrow School and Clare College, Cambridge. Between Harrow and Cambridge,...

Amiya Charan Banerjee

Amiya Charan Banerjee (Bengali: অমিয় চরণ ব্যানার্জি) (23 January 1891 – 31 May 1968) was a mathematician and educator popularly known as A.C.Banerjee or simply as Professor Banerjee. His father Gyan Chandra Banerjee was a meritorious student of...

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd CBE (born 5 October, 1949, East Acton, Middlesex) is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. Peter Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm,...

Owen Seaman

Sir Owen Seaman (18 September 1861 - 2 February 1936) was a British writer, journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of Punch, from 1906 to 1932. Born in Shrewsbury, he was the only son of William Mantle Seaman and Sarah Ann Balls. He...

Ian McWhinney

Ian Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, (born October 11, 1926) is a Canadian physician and academic known as the "Father of Family Medicine" for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario. Born in...

Peter Gunning

Peter Gunning (1614–July 6, 1684), was an English Royalist church leader, Bishop of Chichester and later of Ely. He was born at Hoo St Werburgh, in Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he became a...

John Guy

John Guy (born 1949 in Warragul, Australia) is a leading British historian and biographer. Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he...

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954 in London) is a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. He is currently the...

John Boyd

Sir John Dixon Ikle Boyd KCMG (born January 17, 1936) was the master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2006. He has also been the British ambassador to Japan, between 1992 and 1996. In 1980 he was admitted to the Order of the Founder by...

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 – 5 October, 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the...

Richard Egarr

Richard Egarr is a British keyboard performer and conductor. He received his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. His study with Gustav...

Tim Hunt

Sir Richard Timothy "Tim" Hunt, FRS (born February 19 1943 in Neston, Cheshire) is an English biochemist. He was born on February 19 1943 in Neston, Cheshire to Richard William Hunt, a lecturer in palaeography in Liverpool, and Kit Rowland, daughter...

Peter Lilley

Peter Bruce Lilley (born 23 August 1943) 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...

Christopher Wandesford

Christopher Wandesford (1592 – 1640), Lord Deputy of Ireland, was the son of Sir George Wandesford (1573-1612) of Kirklington, Yorkshire, and was born on 24 September 1592. Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, he entered Parliament in 1621, and his...

Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester

Charles Ingoldsby Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester PC (27 January 1764 – 29 November 1843) was a British peer and courtier, styled Earl of Wiltshire before 1800. Born Lord Charles Ingoldsby Paulet, he was the eldest son of the 12th Marquess of...

Edward Bullard

Sir Edward "Teddy" Crisp Bullard (21 September 1907 - 3 April 1980) was a geophysicist born into a wealthy brewing family in Norwich, England. He studied Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge. He studied under Ernest Rutherford at the...

Richard Middleton

Richard Middleton FBA is Professor of Music at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is also the founder and co-ordinating editor of the journal Popular Music. Middleton studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at the University of York,...

Cecil Sharp

Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 28 June 1924) was the founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early 20th century, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and...

Richard W. B. Clarke

Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke, KCB , OBE (commonly known as Otto Clarke) (13 August 1910 – 21 June 1975) was a British civil servant. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and Clare College, Cambridge; he was sixth wrangler in 1931. He...

Tim Loughton

Timothy Paul Loughton (born 30 May 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham since the 1997 general election. Loughton is currently Shadow Minister for Children shadowing...

Richard Wainwright

Richard Scurrah Wainwright (11 April 1918 – 16 January 2003) was a Liberal MP for Colne Valley, 1966-70 and February 1974-87. As a child he attended the independent boys school at Shrewsbury. Through an open scholarship he was able to attend Clare...

Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia

Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (Serbian Cyrillic: Томислав Карађорђевић) (Belgrade, 19 January 1928 – 12 July 2000) was a member of the House of Karageorgevich. Prince Tomislav was born on 19 January 1928, on Epiphany according to the Julian calendar...

John Heap

John Arnfield Heap, CMG (5 February 1932 – 8 March 2006) was an English polar scientist who helped protect Antarctica from exploitation. John Heap was born in Manchester, England. He was educated at the Quaker-founded Leighton Park School in Reading...

Geoffrey de Freitas

Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas (7 April 1913 – 10 August 1982) was a British politician and diplomat. For many years a Labour Member of Parliament, he also served as British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later as President of the...

John O'Leary

John O'Leary (1947 - 2 April 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College,...

Martin How

Martin How is a British composer and organist. Martin is the son of the late Most Revd J C H How, Primus of the Episcopal Church. Born in Liverpool, where his father was Rector of St Nicholas Church. The family then moved to Brighton, where Martin's...

Walter Weston

The Reverend Walter Weston (25 December 1860 - 27 March 1940), was an English clergyman, missionary, and mountaineer. Weston was born at 22, Parker Street, Derby, the sixth son of John Weston, an elastic manufacturer, and his wife, Emma Butland. He...

John Waldron

Sir John Lovegrove Waldron, KCVO (5 November 1909 – 24 August 1975) was a British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Berkshire Constabulary from 1954 to 1958 and Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1968 to 1972. Born in...