Gifts others have left

Bursaries

In 2003 the Reverend ‘Bill' Skelton left £83,000 to Clare in his will to provide bursaries to undergraduates in financial need, with a preference for students from south London .

Daphne Brazier-Creagh left a legacy of £25,000 in 2000 to provide bursaries to students in financial need, without restriction to a particular subject. Today, the College awards two Brazier-Creagh Bursaries each year to undergraduates.

College buildings

Paul Mellon (1929) left a legacy of £4.4m in 1999 to fund capital improvements and major repairs to Old Court , the Chapel, the Bridge and Gardens. In recent years, the income from the Paul Mellon Clare Trust has been used to repair Clare Bridge (the oldest spanning the River Cam), provide the College with much-needed new kitchen facilities, and build a glasshouse to help maintain the exemplary standard of the Fellows' Garden.

Medical research

Harrison Watson left a legacy in 1953 of $50,000 to provide a studentship for research into the causes and care of tuberculosis and/or diseases of an allied character. Holders of the Harrison Watson Studentship at Clare have included Professor Mark Walport, current Director of the Wellcome Trust.

History

Sir Geoffrey Elton (1949) left a gift to Clare in 1995, which has been augmented by donations from some of his former students, to support research in History. The G. R. Elton Fund is used primarily to support a Postgraduate Research Scholarship in modern European history.

Biochemistry

Professor A. C. Chibnall left a legacy of £60,000 in 1988 to provide an annual prize for Part III Biochemistry, and to support research students in Biochemistry.

Modern Languages

Edward Mallinson left a gift in 1930 to support Modern Languages at Clare. Today, the Mallinson Fund provides an annual prize for academic distinction in Modern Languages; travel grants to enable Modern Languages students to travel abroad for educational purposes (recent examples include a translation course in Paris, a summer school in Madrid, participation in a conference in Italian studies, and attending an Arabic course in Yemen); hardship funds for graduate students in financial difficulties; and a Mallinson Studentship for a PhD student in Modern Languages.

Books

The Reverend F. I. Wane left a legacy in 1972 to assist in the conservation of books in the Fellows' Library. Today income from the Wane Fund is used to support a rolling programme of conservation of the Library's most precious manuscripts and books.