List of masters of Clare College, Cambridge

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

#Year of installationNameNotes
11326Walter de Thaxtedstill University Hall at this time
21342Ralph Kerdingtonno longer University Hall; now Clare Hall
31359Nicholas de Brunne
41371John de Donewich
51392John de Charteresse
61400William Radwinter [2]
71421William Wymbyll
81440William Gull
91446William Wilflete
101455John Millington
111466Thomas Stoyll
121470Richard Stubbs
131496Gabriel Silvester
141506William Woodruff
151514Edmund Natures
161530 John Crayford
171539Roland Swynbourne
181549 John Madew
191553Roland Swynbourne
201557 Thomas Bayly
211560 Edward Leeds
221571 Thomas Byng
231601 William Smith
241612 Robert Scott
251620 Thomas Paske
261645 Ralph Cudworth
271654 Theophilus Dillingham 1st term
281660 Thomas Paske
291661 Theophilus Dillingham 2nd term
301678 Samuel Blythe
311713 William Grigg
321726 Charles Morgan
331736 John Wilcox
341762 Peter Godard
351781 John Torkington
361815 William Webb
371856 Edward Atkinson now refounded as Clare College
381915 William Loudon Mollison
391929 Godfrey Wilson Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1935–1937
401939 Henry Thirkill
411958 Eric Ashby
421975 Robin Matthews
431993 Bob Hepple
442003 Tony Badger
452014 Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner
462021 Loretta Minghella

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References

  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