Eton College
Eton College
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Location:
Windsor, Berkshire, England
Founding Date:
1440
Motto:
Floreat Etona
Enrollment:
1,200
Official Website:
http://www.etoncollege.com/
STUDENTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Anderson | Editor | 11-Sep-1938 | Editor, New Left Review | |
| A. J. Ayer | Philosopher | 29-Oct-1910 | 27-Jun-1989 | Language, Truth and Logic |
| Arthur Balfour | Head of State | 25-Jul-1848 | 19-Mar-1930 | UK Prime Minister, 1902-05 |
| Sir Joseph Banks | Botanist | 13-Feb-1743 | 19-Jun-1820 | Accompanied James Cook |
| John Bayley | Novelist | 25-Mar-1925 | 12-Jan-2015 | Widower's House |
| David Benedictus | Novelist | 16-Sep-1938 | The Fourth of June | |
| Peter Benenson | Activist | 31-Jul-1921 | 25-Feb-2005 | Founder of Amnesty International |
| John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan | Aristocrat | 18-Dec-1934 | 3-Feb-2016 | 7th Earl of Lucan, murderer |
| Robert Boyle | Chemist | 25-Jan-1627 | 30-Dec-1691 | Pioneer of modern chemistry |
| Jeremy Brett | Actor | 3-Nov-1933 | 12-Sep-1995 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| William Bridgeman | Politician | 31-Dec-1864 | 14-Aug-1935 | UK Home Secretary, 1922-24 |
| Robert Bridges | Poet | 23-Oct-1844 | 21-Apr-1930 | Prometheus the Firegiver |
| Beau Brummell | Socialite | 7-Jun-1778 | 30-Mar-1840 | Dandy, 19th c. arbiter of fashion |
| John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | Head of State | 25-May-1713 | 10-Mar-1792 | UK Prime Minister, 1762-63 |
| David Cameron | Head of State | 9-Oct-1966 | UK Prime Minister | |
| George Canning | Politician | 11-Apr-1770 | 8-Aug-1827 | Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain |
| Peter Carington | Government | 6-Jun-1919 | UK Foreign Secretary, 1979-82 | |
| Andrew Cavendish | Aristocrat | 2-Jan-1920 | 3-May-2004 | 11th Duke of Devonshire |
| Peregrine Cavendish | Aristocrat | 12-Apr-1944 | 12th Duke of Devonshire | |
| Christopher Cazenove | Actor | 17-Dec-1945 | 7-Apr-2010 | English character actor |
| Lord David Cecil | Author | 9-Apr-1902 | 1-Jan-1986 | Melbourne |
| Robert Cecil | Politician | 14-Sep-1864 | 24-Nov-1958 | Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Alexander Chancellor | Editor | 4-Jan-1940 | Editor of The Spectator, 1975-84 | |
| Randolph Churchill | Journalist | 28-May-1911 | 6-Jun-1968 | Son of Winston Churchill |
| Lord Randolph Churchill | Politician | 13-Feb-1849 | 24-Jan-1895 | Father of Winston Churchill |
| Winston S. Churchill | Politician | 10-Oct-1940 | 2-Mar-2010 | British MP, Manchester, 1970-97 |
| Alan Clark | Politician | 13-Apr-1928 | 5-Sep-1999 | Controversial, Conservative MP and minister |
| Colin Clark | Film/TV Producer | 9-Oct-1932 | 17-Dec-2002 | My Week with Marilyn |
| Nicholas Coleridge | Business | 1957 | Managing Director, Cond� Nast | |
| Anthony Collins | Philosopher | 21-Jun-1676 | 13-Dec-1729 | A Discourse on Freethinking |
| Cyril Connolly | Critic | 10-Sep-1903 | 26-Nov-1974 | Enemies of Promise |
| Charles Cornwallis | Military | 31-Dec-1738 | 5-Oct-1805 | Surrendered at Yorktown |
| Donald Crisp | Actor | 27-Jul-1880 | 25-May-1974 | Silent film actor, survived into talkies |
| Henry Page Croft | Politician | 22-Jun-1881 | 7-Dec-1947 | British Under-Secretary of War, 1940-45 |
| Harry Crookshank | Politician | 27-May-1893 | 17-Oct-1961 | Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55 |
| George Nathaniel Curzon | Government | 11-Jan-1859 | 20-Mar-1925 | Created the Kingdom of Jordan |
| Alec Douglas-Home | Head of State | 2-Jul-1903 | 9-Oct-1995 | UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 |
| E. R. Eddison | Novelist | 24-Nov-1882 | 18-Aug-1945 | The Worm Ouroboros |
| Anthony Eden | Head of State | 12-Jun-1897 | 14-Jan-1977 | UK Prime Minister, 1955-57 |
| David Faber | Politician | 7-Jul-1961 | British MP for Westbury, 1992-2001 | |
| Marshall Field III | Business | 28-Sep-1893 | 8-Nov-1956 | Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times |
| Henry Fielding | Novelist | 22-Apr-1707 | 8-Oct-1754 | Tom Jones |
| Ranulph Fiennes | Explorer | 7-Mar-1944 | World explorer | |
| J. Dudley Fishburn | Business | 8-Jun-1946 | British MP, Kensington, 1988-97 | |
| Antony Fisher | Activist | 1915 | Jul-1988 | Libertarian think-tank founder |
| Ian Fleming | Novelist | 28-May-1908 | 12-Aug-1964 | Author of the James Bond series |
| Charles James Fox | Politician | 24-Jan-1749 | 13-Sep-1806 | U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary |
| Henry Richard Vassall Fox | Politician | 21-Nov-1773 | 22-Oct-1840 | 3rd Baron Holland |
| Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil | Head of State | 3-Feb-1830 | 22-Aug-1903 | UK Prime Minister three times |
| Ian Gilmour | Politician | 8-Jul-1926 | 21-Sep-2007 | Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar |
| Herbert Gladstone | Politician | 18-Feb-1854 | 6-Mar-1930 | UK Home Secretary, 1905-10 |
| William Ewart Gladstone | Head of State | 29-Dec-1809 | 19-May-1898 | Four times UK Prime Minister |
| George Peabody Gooch | Historian | 21-Oct-1873 | 31-Aug-1968 | English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century |
| Charles Gordon-Lennox | Aristocrat | 19-Sep-1929 | 10th Duke of Richmond | |
| Thomas Gray | Poet | 26-Dec-1716 | 30-Jul-1771 | An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard |
| Henry Green | Novelist | 29-Oct-1905 | 13-Dec-1973 | Loving |
| George Grenville | Politician | 14-Oct-1712 | 13-Nov-1770 | UK Prime Minister, 1763-65 |
| William Wyndham Grenville | Politician | 25-Oct-1759 | 12-Jan-1834 | UK Prime Minister, 1806-07 |
| Jo Grimond | Politician | 29-Jul-1913 | 24-Oct-1993 | Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1956-67 |
| Bear Grylls | TV Personality | 7-Jun-1974 | Man vs. Wild | |
| J. B. S. Haldane | Biologist | 5-Nov-1892 | 1-Dec-1964 | Haldane's principle |
| Edward Hall | Historian | c. 1495 | 1547 | English chronicler |
| Henry Hallam | Historian | 9-Jul-1777 | 21-Jan-1859 | View of the Middle Ages |
| Henry Hardinge | Military | 30-Mar-1785 | 24-Sep-1856 | Governor-General of India, 1844-48 |
| Sir John Harington | Author | 1561 | 20-Nov-1612 | The Metamorphosis of Ajax |
| Prince Harry | Royalty | 15-Sep-1984 | 2nd son of Princess Diana | |
| Antony Head | Politician | 1906 | 1983 | UK Minister of Defence, 1956-57 |
| Derick Heathcoat-Amory | Politician | 26-Dec-1899 | 20-Jan-1981 | Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1958-60 |
| John Herschel | Astronomer | 7-Mar-1792 | 11-May-1871 | Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| Tom Hiddleston | Actor | 9-Feb-1981 | Thor | |
| William Howe | Military | 10-Aug-1729 | 12-Jul-1814 | Commander-in-Chief in America |
| David Howell | Politician | 18-Jan-1936 | Former MP, Guildford | |
| Douglas Hurd | Politician | 8-Mar-1930 | Former UK Home, Foreign Secretary | |
| Nick Hurd | Politician | 13-May-1962 | British MP, Ruislip-Northwood | |
| Aldous Huxley | Author | 26-Jul-1894 | 22-Nov-1963 | Brave New World |
| Julian Huxley | Biologist | 22-Jun-1887 | 14-Feb-1975 | Evolutionary biologist |
| M. R. James | Author | 1-Aug-1862 | 12-Jun-1936 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
| Gladwyn Jebb | Diplomat | 25-Apr-1900 | 24-Oct-1996 | Acting UN Secretary General, 1945-46 |
| Boris Johnson | Politician | 19-Jun-1964 | UK Foreign Secretary | |
| John Maynard Keynes | Economist | 5-Jun-1883 | 21-Apr-1946 | Father of Keynesian economics |
| Hugh Laurie | Actor | 11-Jun-1959 | Jeeves and Wooster, House | |
| John Lehmann | Poet | 2-Jun-1907 | 7-Apr-1987 | Thrown to the Woolfs |
| Robin Leigh-Pemberton | Business | 5-Jan-1927 | 24-Nov-2013 | Governor of the Bank of England, 1983-93 |
| Leopold III | Royalty | 3-Nov-1901 | 25-Sep-1983 | Abdicated King of Belgium |
| Damian Lewis | Actor | 11-Feb-1971 | Band of Brothers | |
| John Loder | Actor | 3-Jan-1898 | 26-Dec-1988 | Sabotage |
| Fitzroy Maclean | Politician | 11-Mar-1911 | 15-Jun-1996 | Eastern Approaches |
| Harold Macmillan | Head of State | 10-Feb-1894 | 29-Dec-1986 | UK Prime Minister, 1957-63 |
| Patrick Macnee | Actor | 6-Feb-1922 | 25-Jun-2015 | Mr. Steed on The Avengers |
| F. W. Maitland | Historian | 28-May-1850 | 19-Dec-1906 | The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I |
| Simon Mann | Military | 26-Jun-1952 | Executive Outcomes | |
| John Maynard Smith | Biologist | 6-Jan-1920 | 19-Apr-2004 | Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| Prince Michael of Kent | Royalty | 4-Jul-1942 | Grandson of King George V | |
| George Orwell | Author | 25-Jun-1903 | 21-Jan-1950 | 1984 and Animal Farm |
| William Oughtred | Mathematician | 5-Mar-1574 | 30-Jun-1660 | Inventor of the slide rule |
| William Pitt the Elder | Head of State | 15-Nov-1708 | 11-May-1778 | Seven Years War |
| Anthony Powell | Novelist | 21-Dec-1905 | 28-Mar-2000 | A Dance to the Music of Time |
| Archibald Philip Primrose | Head of State | 7-May-1847 | 21-May-1929 | UK Prime Minister 1894-95 |
| Francis Pym | Politician | 13-Feb-1922 | 6-Mar-2008 | UK Foreign Secretary, 1982-83 |
| Lord Rayleigh | Physicist | 12-Nov-1842 | 30-Jun-1919 | Why the sky is blue |
| Eddie Redmayne | Actor | 6-Jan-1982 | Red | |
| Nicholas Ridley | Politician | 17-Feb-1929 | 4-Mar-1993 | Thatcherite MP and Minister |
| Jonathan Riley-Smith | Historian | 27-Jun-1938 | The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading | |
| Charles Stewart Rolls | Business | 27-Aug-1877 | 12-Jul-1910 | Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce |
| Vere Rothermere | Publisher | 27-Apr-1925 | 1-Sep-1998 | Proprietor of the Daily Mail, 1971-98 |
| Jacob Rothschild | Business | 29-Apr-1936 | RIT Capital Partners | |
| Conrad Russell | Historian | 15-Apr-1937 | 14-Oct-2004 | Fall of the British monarchies, 1637-1642 |
| Duncan Sandys | Politician | 24-Jan-1908 | 26-Nov-1987 | UK Colonial Secretary, 1962-64 |
| Charles Shaughnessy | Actor | 9-Feb-1955 | Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poet | 4-Aug-1792 | 8-Jul-1822 | Prometheus Unbound |
| Goldwin Smith | Historian | 13-Aug-1823 | 7-Jun-1910 | Controversialist |
| David Somerset | Aristocrat | 23-Feb-1928 | 11th Duke of Beaufort | |
| Frederick Arthur Stanley | Government | 15-Jan-1841 | 14-Jun-1908 | Hockey's Stanley Cup |
| Sir Leslie Stephen | Encyclopaedist | 28-Nov-1832 | 22-Feb-1904 | Dictionary of National Biography |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poet | 5-Apr-1837 | 10-Apr-1909 | Masochist Victorian poet |
| Peter Thorneycroft | Politician | 26-Jul-1909 | 4-Jun-1994 | UK Minister of Defence, 1962-64 |
| Jeremy Thorpe | Politician | 29-Apr-1929 | 4-Dec-2014 | Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1967-76 |
| David Tree | Actor | 15-Jul-1915 | 4-Nov-2009 | Pygmalion |
| Edmund Waller | Poet | 3-Mar-1606 | 21-Oct-1687 | Go, Lovely Rose |
| Horace Walpole | Author | 24-Sep-1717 | 2-Mar-1797 | Wrote the first Gothic novel |
| Robert Walpole | Head of State | 26-Aug-1676 | 18-Mar-1745 | UK's first Prime Minister |
| Arthur Wellesley | Military | 1-May-1769 | 14-Sep-1852 | 1st Duke of Wellington |
| Stephen Wolfram | Mathematician | 29-Aug-1959 | Creator of Mathematica | |
| Simon Woods | Actor | 1980 | Pride & Prejudice |
ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Henry Huxley | Scientist | 24-May-1825 | 29-Jun-1895 | Debated Wilberforce over evolution |
| M. R. James | Author | 1-Aug-1862 | 12-Jun-1936 | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
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