Not to be confused with List of Presidents of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
The following have been masters of Clare College, Cambridge:
# | Year of installation | Name | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1326 | Walter de Thaxted | still University Hall at this time |
2 | 1342 | Ralph Kerdington | no longer University Hall; now Clare Hall |
3 | 1359 | Nicholas de Brunne | |
4 | 1371 | John de Donewich | |
5 | 1392 | John de Charteresse | |
6 | 1400 | William Radwinter | |
7 | 1421 | William Wymbyll | |
8 | 1440 | William Gull | |
9 | 1446 | William Wilflete | |
10 | 1455 | John Millington | |
11 | 1466 | Thomas Stoyll | |
12 | 1470 | Richard Stubbs | |
13 | 1496 | Gabriel Silvester | |
14 | 1506 | William Woodruff | |
15 | 1514 | Edmund Natures | |
16 | 1530 | John Crayford | |
17 | 1539 | Roland Swynbourne | |
18 | 1549 | John Madew | |
19 | 1553 | Roland Swynbourne | |
20 | 1557 | Thomas Bayly | |
21 | 1560 | Edward Leeds | |
22 | 1571 | Thomas Byng | |
23 | 1601 | William Smith | |
24 | 1612 | Robert Scott | |
25 | 1620 | Thomas Paske | |
26 | 1645 | Ralph Cudworth | |
27 | 1654 | Theophilus Dillingham | 1st term |
28 | 1660 | Thomas Paske | |
29 | 1661 | Theophilus Dillingham | 2nd term |
30 | 1678 | Samuel Blythe | |
31 | 1713 | William Grigg | |
32 | 1726 | Charles Morgan | |
33 | 1736 | John Wilcox | |
34 | 1762 | Peter Godard | |
35 | 1781 | John Torkington | |
36 | 1815 | William Webb | |
37 | 1856 | Edward Atkinson | now refounded as Clare College |
38 | 1915 | William Loudon Mollison | |
39 | 1929 | Godfrey Wilson | Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1935–1937 |
40 | 1939 | Henry Thirkill | |
41 | 1958 | Eric Ashby | |
42 | 1975 | Robin Matthews | |
43 | 1993 | Bob Hepple | |
44 | 2003 | Tony Badger | |
45 | 2014 | Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner | |
46 | 2021 | Loretta Minghella |
References
- Clare College website: List of Masters Archived 2008-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 629, for the year 1418; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0284.htm; sixth entry, "cant" in the margin; Magist' Willm Radwynter