List of masters of Clare College, Cambridge explained

List of masters of Clare College, Cambridge should not be confused with List of Presidents of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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

Year of installation Name Notes
1 1326 Walter de Thaxtedstill University Hall at this time
2 1342 Ralph Kerdingtonno longer University Hall; now Clare Hall
3 1359 Nicholas de Brunne
4 1371 John de Donewich
5 1392John de Charteresse
6 1400 William Radwinter [2]
7 1421 William Wymbyll
8 1440William Gull
9 1446 William Wilflete
10 1455 John Millington
11 1466 Thomas Stoyll
12 1470 Richard Stubbs
13 1496Gabriel Silvester
14 1506 William Woodruff
15 1514 Edmund Natures
16 1530
17 1539 Roland Swynbourne
18 1549
19 1553Roland Swynbourne
20 1557
21 1560
22 1571
23 1601
24 1612
25 1620
26 1645
27 1654 1st term
28 1660
29 1661 2nd term
30 1678
31 1713
32 1726
33 1736
34 1762
35 1781
36 1815
37 1856 now refounded as Clare College
38 1915
39 1929 Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1935–1937
40 1939
41 1958
42 1975
43 1993
44 2003
45 2014
46 2021

Notes and References

  1. http://131.111.214.230/about/documents/MastersofClare.pdf Clare College website: List of Masters
  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