List of alumni of Clare College, Cambridge

The following is a list of alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

Former students

Academics

Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster

Tim Hunt, biochemist

Robert Mair, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge

• Anthony Appiah, philosopher
• Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, botanist and natural scientist, Master of the College 1959–67, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1967–69, founded Clare Hall, Cambridge
• Edward Atkinson, Master of the College 1856–1915, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1862–63
• Sir David Attenborough, naturalist
• John Baker, Baron Baker, scientist and engineer, Professor of Mechanical Sciences (latterly renamed Professor of Engineering) at the University of Cambridge, 1943–70
• Amiya Charan Banerjee, mathematician, Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University 1953–55
• Meredith Belbin, management theorist
• Roger Blench, anthropologist and linguist
• Samuel Blythe, Master of the College 1678–1713, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1684–85, benefactor
• Sir John Boyd, Master of Churchill College, Cambridge 1996–2006
• David Cannadine, historian
• Hector Munro Chadwick, philologist and historian, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge 1912–41
• Ralph Cudworth, philosopher and theologian, leader of the Cambridge Platonists, Master of the College 1644–50, Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge 1645–88
• Daryl Dixon, economic writer and superannuation expert
• Sir Ernest De Silva, Sri Lankan philanthropist
• Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, historian of the Tudor period, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge 1983–88
• Eric Fawcett, physicist
• Henry Louis Gates, African-American academic
• Sir Harry Godwin, botanist and ecologist, founded the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research in the University of Cambridge
• John Guy, leading Tudor historian and Fellow of the College
• Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, classicist, historian and archaeologist
• James Rendel Harris, biblical scholar, theologian, palaeographer and mathematician
• Thomas McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge 1873–1917
• Tim Hunt, biochemist
• Oscar Kempthorne, Distinguished Professor of Science and Humanities at Iowa State University, statistician and geneticist
• Frances Kirwan, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University
• Robert Mair, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
• Paul Mellon, benefactor
• The Revd. Canon Arthur Peacocke, scientist and theologian, Dean of the College 1973–84
• Sir Brian Pippard, first President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge 1971–84
• James Raven, Professor of History at the University of Essex
• George Ruggle, early seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and playwright
• Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS, geologist, Professor at the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research and the Department of Earth Sciences in the University of Cambridge
• Cecil Sharp, folklorist and ethnographer
• Rupert Sheldrake, scientist
• Harold McCarter Taylor, architectural historian
• Richard Taylor, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
• Sir Henry Thirkill, physicist, Master of the College 1939–58, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1945–47
• Sir Mark Walport, director of Wellcome Trust
• James D. Watson, double helix discoverer and human genome advocate
• Abraham Whelock, seventeenth-century scholar, philologist and Arabist
• William Whiston, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge 1702–11, theologian
• Andrew Wiles, mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem
• Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economics at Oxford

Clergy

• M. A. Bayfield (1852–1922), classical scholar, author, headmaster, clergyman and spiritualist
• John Barret (1646–1650), Presbyterian divine and religious writer^[1]
• Nicholas Ferrar, religious leader
• James Butler Knill Kelly, Anglican Bishop of Newfoundland
• Hugh Latimer, chaplain to Edward VI, Bishop of Worcester and martyr
• Thomas Merton, writer, Catholic thinker and monk
• John Moore, Bishop of Ely 1707–14
• John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury 1691–94
• Vernon White, Principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
• The Most Revd. and Rt. Hon. Rowan Williams, Dean of the College 1984–86, Archbishop of Canterbury 2003–13
• The Right Revd. The Lord Bishop Richard Williamson, traditionalist Catholic bishop
• Reverend Ralph Wheelock (1600–1684), puritan scholar, first schoolmaster of America's first free school in Dedham, Massachusetts, and great grandfather of Dartmouth College founder Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, D.D.

Politicians and public servants

• Sir Ernest Gowers, civil servant and author of Plain Words.
• Carr Hervey, Lord Hervey, British MP and eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
• John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, 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 by his second marriage
• David Howarth, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge and Fellow of the College
• Robert Key, Conservative MP
• Peter Lilley, Conservative MP
• Liz Lloyd, adviser to former Prime Minister Tony Blair
• Tim Loughton, Conservative MP
• Matthew Parris, broadcaster, political analyst and former Conservative MP
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of Great Britain
• Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP
• Richard Taylor, Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, MP
• Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, senior British politician after whom Sydney, Australia was named
• Richard Wainwright, Liberal MP
• Sir John Waldron, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1968–72
• Christopher Wandesford, Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1640
• Michael Wills, Labour MP
• Paul Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray, Governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria
• Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, civil servant and Cabinet Secretary, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Musicians

• 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, Principal Conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
• Clive Carey, baritone and composer
• Nicholas Collon, musician, co-founded Aurora Orchestra and Cappella Artois
• Richard Egarr, harpsichordist and fortepianist, Musical Director of the Academy of Ancient Music
• Patrick Gowers, composer, conductor and arranger
• Ruth Holton, soprano
• Martin How, composer and organist
• Andrew Manze, baroque violinist and broadcaster, Musical Director of The English Concert
• Sir Roger Norrington, conductor, founded the London Classical Players
• John Rutter, composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer
• Richard Stilgoe, songwriter, lyricist and musician
• Jeremy Thurlow, composer
• Robin Ticciati, conductor, pianist, percussionist and violinist, co-founded Aurora Orchestra
• Clive Wearing, musician, musicologist, broadcaster and amnesiac
• Christopher Willis, film composer
• Maury Yeston, composer, lyricist, musicologist

Others

• Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner, British judge and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• Peter Ackroyd, author
• Robyn Addison, actor, played Sarah Boyer in Survivors and Joanne Coldwell in Casualty
• Immad Akhund, Internet entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Heyzap
• Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), English jurist
• Sabine Baring-Gould, Victorian novelist
• Sir Max Bemrose, industrialist
• John Berryman, American poet
• Granville Coghlan (1907–1983), rugby union international, represented Great Britain on 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general in the American Revolutionary War
• Christian Coulson, actor
• Robert Court, Head Master of Birkdale School
• Merrick Elderton (1884–1939), cricketer and educator^[2]
• Trent Ford, American actor and model
• Sir Michael Le Fanu, Admiral of the Fleet of the Royal Navy
• Sir Paul Girvan, Lord Justice of Appeal, Supreme Court of Northern Ireland
• Sir Charles Hanson, 2nd Baronet
• Nick Harkaway, novelist
• Kit Hesketh-Harvey, comic performer and scriptwriter
• Sir Bob Hepple, attorney, advocate and anti-apartheid campaigner in South Africa 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 1995–2001
• David Jennens, rower who represented Cambridge University and Great Britain
• Matt Kirshen, stand-up comedian
• Sue Lenier, poet and playwright
• Randy Lerner, American entrepreneur, owner of Aston Villa and Cleveland Browns
• Rebecca Levene, author of Doctor Who novels
• Kurt Lipstein, QC, German-born lawyer, specialist in Roman law and conflict of laws within private international law and public international law and pioneer in comparative law, Fellow of the College 1956–2006, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge 1973–76
• Henry Longhurst, sports journalist, television broadcaster
• David Meek (as David Tyler), television and radio producer
• Ian McDonald, writer
• China Miéville, writer
• Professor David Morley (paediatrician), British pioneer in children's health care
• Mohan Munasinghe, environmental campaigner, founder of Munasinghe Institute for Development, vice chair of IPCC which won Nobel Peace Prize 2007 jointly with Al Gore
• Allison Pearson, author and newspaper columnist
• Siegfried Sassoon, war poet
• Andrew Sentance, Member of Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, 2006–11, and Chief Economist 1998–2006 at British Airways
• Charles Sergel, rower who represented Cambridge University and Great Britain
• Najam Sethi, journalist
• Jirō Shirasu, Japanese bureaucrat, businessman
• Matthew Stadlen, producer, editor and journalist for BBC News, presents Five Minutes With...
• Gillian Tett, US managing editor of the Financial Times and author of the book Fool's Gold
• Marcel Theroux, writer and broadcaster
• William Whitehead, Poet Laureate 1757–85
• Stephen Wyatt, television writer
• Dan Zeff, director

See also

• List of Masters of Clare College, Cambridge

References

1. ODNB entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1515 Retrieved 11 July 2011. Subscription required.
2. "Player profile: Merrick Elderton". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 November 2011.