List of masters of Clare College, Cambridge

The following have been masters of Clare College, Cambridge:[1]

# 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 [2]
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

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  1. ^ Clare College website: List of Masters Archived 2008-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ 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