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.

Presidents Past and Present

The President?s term of office is fixed at seven years and in 1973 Robert Honeycombe (later Sir Robert), Goldsmiths Professor and Head of the Department of Metallurgy, succeeded Brian Pippard as President of Clare Hall. Subsequent Presidents were: Sir Michael Stoker (1980-87), Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society and a former fellow and medical tutor at Clare College, who had taken early retirement from his post as Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories; Anthony Low (1987-94), Professor of Commonwealth History and formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, who had been a visiting fellow of Clare Hall in 1971; Professor Dame Gillian Beer (1994-2001), King Edward VII Professor of English Literature. Professor Ekhard Salje FRS, Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, became President of Clare Hall in 2001 after holding professorships in Germany and in France.

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The late Lord Ashby was elected as the first honorary fellow of Clare Hall in 1975, on his retirement from the Mastership of Clare College. Present honorary fellows include two former visiting fellows: Kim Dae-Jung, President of the Republic of Korea; and Lee Bollinger, who later became President of the Universities of Michigan and Columbia . They also include the retired Presidents of the college, together with Ralph Erskine, architect of the early buildings, and Richard Eden, one of the founding fellows.

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