List of masters of Clare College, Cambridge


The following have been masters of Clare College, Cambridge:
NameImageMaster fromNotes
Walter de Thaxted1326University Hall at this time
Ralph Kerdington1342No longer University Hall; now Clare Hall
Nicholas de Brunne1359-
John de Donewich1371-
John de Charteresse1392-
William Radwinter1400
William Wymbyll1421-
William Gull1440-
William Wilflete1446-
John Millington1455-
Thomas Stoyll1466-
Richard Stubbs1470-
Gabriel Silvester1496-
William Woodruff1506-
Edmund Natures1514-
John Crayford1530-
Roland Swynbourne1539First term
John Madew1549-
Roland Swynbourne1553Second term
Thomas Baily1557-
Edward Leeds1560-
Thomas Byng1571-
William Smith1601-
Robert Scott1612-
Thomas Paske1620-
Ralph Cudworth1645-
Theophilus Dillingham16541st term
Thomas Paske1660-
Theophilus Dillingham16612nd term
Samuel Blythe1678-
William Grigg1713-
Charles Morgan1726-
John Wilcox1736-
Peter Godard1762-
John Torkington1781-
William Webb1815-
Edward Atkinson1856Priest, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1862–1863, 1868–1870, and 1876–1878
William Mollison1915Scottish mathematician
Godfrey Wilson1929Australian-born politician, Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1935–1937
Sir Henry Thirkill1939Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1945 to 1947
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby1958British botanist, president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Robin Matthews1975Economist
Sir Bob Hepple1993South African-born legal academic
Tony Badger2003Paul Mellon Professor of American History
Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner
2014British barrister, peer in the House of Lords, President of the University of Law since 2015
Loretta Minghella
2021Former CEO of Christian Aid and served as the First Church Estates Commissioner