Born at Birmingham where his father was city treasurer, he was educated at King Edward's School there and trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He held resident posts at the Gordon Hospital, London, and the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, and was resident medical officer under Bland-Sutton at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He went into general practice at Leicester in 1909, and was much interested in pathology. He was appointed to the staff of the Royal Infirmary, Leicester, as assistant surgeon in 1913, but served in the RAMC in Mesopotamia and on the Indian North-West Frontier during the war of 1914-18. Returning to Leicester he was appointed surgeon to the Infirmary, and continued at work after the age of retirement through the second world war till 1946, and returned for part-time duty in 1949. He practised as a gynaecological surgeon first at 192 London Road and later at 19 Central Avenue. He was President of the Leicester Medical Society in 1929 and of the Midland Obstetric and Gynaecological Society in 1938. He died on 12 November 1958 aged 77, survived by his wife and their only son, the Rev T C Hunter Clare. "Tommy" Clare was a man of whimsical charm. He was a keen fisherman and played golf and bridge, but was also interested in music and natural history. He held high office in Freemasonry. Publications: *The physiology of cancer* 1929. *A Socratic dialogue on cancer* 1938.