Clare Hall, Cambridge

Clare Hall is a College for Advanced Study in the University of Cambridge. It was founded by Clare College in 1966, and received its own Royal Charter as an independent college in the university in 1984.

New Buildings

In addition to the gift of its ancient name, Clare College provided a generous gift of land and buildings in Herschel Road and an initial endowment, complemented by a substantial endowment from the Old Dominion Foundation. The distinguished architect Ralph Erskine was appointed to design the buildings for Clare Hall, which were to include common rooms, offices and dining facilities, a house for the President and twenty apartments for visiting fellows. A neighbouring house, Elmside in Grange Road, provided rooms for the relatively small number of graduate students.

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Sir Eric Ashby, Master of Clare College and Vice-Chancellor of the University, formally opened the new buildings of Clare Hall in September 1969. The Pippard family had already moved into the President?s house, twelve research students were living on the college site in Elmside and a number of visiting fellows with their families were living in the newly built college apartments. Amongst the early visiting fellows was Ivor Gaevor, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973. Joseph Brodsky, a visiting fellow and poet in residence at Clare Hall in 1977, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.

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