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The following notable
Old Boys of
Eton College were born in the 19th century.
19th century
William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll (1801–1846)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
José Agustín de Lecubarri (1802–1874), diplomat and navy officer
Sir John William Lubbock (1803–1865),
Vice-Chancellor ,
University of London , 1837–1842,
astronomer and mathematician
Field Marshal
Lord William Paulet
GCB (1804–1893),
British Army officer
James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807–1889),
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1852, 1858–1859, and
Lord Privy Seal , 1866–1868, 1874–1876
Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898), poet
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (1808–1891), politician and benefactor of science and industry
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898),
President of the Board of Trade , 1843–1845,
Colonial Secretary , 1845–1846,
Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1852–1855, 1859–1866, and
Prime Minister , 1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894
Alexander Kinglake (1809–1891),
military historian
George Selwyn (1809–1878),
Bishop of New Zealand , 1841–1867, and
Lichfield , 1868–1878
1810s
George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris (1810–1872),
Governor of Madras , 1854–1859
James Milnes Gaskell (1810–1873), politician,
Lord of the Treasury
Charles Kean (1811–1868), actor
John Bowes (1811–1885), art collector, founder of the
Bowes Museum
Arthur Henry Hallam (1811–1833), poet
Rodolphus de Salis (1811–1880), Colonel of the
8th Hussars
William Fane de Salis (businessman) (1812–1896), company chairman
Robert Moore (1812–1857), cricketer and clergyman
John Story (1812–1872), cricketer
John Dolignon (1813–1896), cricketer
Robert Sutton (1813–1885), first-class cricketer and reverend
Sir Arthur Borton (1814–1893),
Governor of Malta , 1878–1884
Sir John William Kaye KCSI (1814 – 1876), military historian, civil servant and army officer.
Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird (1814–1887), banker, politician and philanthropist
Sir John Lawes (1814–1899),
agriculturist
George Vance (1814–1839), cricketer
Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Labalmondière (1815–1893),
Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , 1856–1888
John Charles Ryle (1816–1900), Anglican evangelical theologian and first
Bishop of Liverpool
Thomas Gambier Parry (1816–1888), English artist and art collector
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (1816–1905),
Chancellor and
Vicar-General of the
Province of York , 1877–1900, and
clock designer
Leopold Fane De Salis (1816–1898), Australian pastoralist and politician
George Seymour (1816–1838), cricketer
Henry Woodyer (1816–1896)
Sir Algernon Coote, 11th Baronet (1817–1899), Irish cricketer and clergyman
Frederick Garnett (1817–1874), cricketer
George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton of Frankley (1817–1876), politician and co-founder of
Canterbury, New Zealand
Lieutenant-General Lord Henry Percy (1817–1877),
Crimean War
Victoria Cross
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894),
Attorney General , 1871–1873,
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , 1873–1880, and
Lord Chief Justice , 1880–1894
Sir John Carmichael-Anstruther, 6th Baronet (1818–1831), shot at Eton
John Wynne (1819–1893), cricketer and clergyman
1820s
Tsatur Khan (1820-1905), General and Persian
Envoy to Russia
Sir Richard Garth (1820–1903), Chief Justice of Bengal, 1875–1886
Edward Thring (1821–1887), Headmaster of
Uppingham School , 1853–1887
Maxwell Blacker (1822–1888), cricketer and clergyman
John Francis Campbell of Islay (1822–1885),
Gaelic scholar
John Buller (1823–1867), cricketer and soldier
William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), poet
Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson (1823-1913), Politician
Henry Hildyard (1824–1898), cricketer and clergyman
James Leigh Joynes (1824–1908), clergyman and schoolmaster
Robert Honywood (1825–1870), cricketer
William Spottiswoode (1825–1883),
President of the Royal Society , 1878–1883, mathematician and
physicist
Frederick Coleridge (1826–1906), cricketer and clergyman
Thomas
Levett , 1826, later
Levett-Prinsep of
Croxall Hall , Derbyshire
General Sir George Higginson (1826–1927), Crimean War soldier, commander of the
Brigade of Guards
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Russell (1826–1883),
Crimean War
Victoria Cross and politician
John Coleridge Patteson (1827–1871),
Bishop of Melanesia , 1861–1871, and
martyr
Sir Charles Oakeley, 4th Baronet (1828–1915), cricketer and soldier
Frederick Eden (1829–1916), cricketer
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Fraser (1829–1895),
Indian Mutiny
Victoria Cross
Henry Agar-Ellis, 3rd Viscount Clifden , won both
Derby and
St. Leger in 1848
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894), judge
1830s
Edwin Blake (1830–1914), civil engineer and politician in New Zealand
[1]
William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton (1830-1907), peer and politician
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903),
Secretary of State for India , 1866–1867, 1874–1878,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1878–1880, 1885–1886, 1887–1892, 1895–1900, and
Prime Minister , 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1902
James Payn (1830–1898), novelist, poet, editor and journalist
Clement Walker Heneage (1831–1901),
Indian Mutiny
Victoria Cross
Fiennes Cornwallis 1831–1867
Henry Labouchère (1831–1912), politician and publisher
Sir Robert Herbert (1831–1905), first
Premier of Queensland
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Pearson (1831–1890),
Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , 1881–1890
George Fosbery (1832–1907),
Umbeyla Expedition
Victoria Cross and
firearms
expert
Gerald Goodlake (1832–1890),
Crimean War
Victoria Cross
Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage (1832–1901),
Crimean War
Victoria Cross and politician
Harry Moody (1832–1921), cricketer and civil servant
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914),
Commander-in-Chief ,
Madras , 1881–1885,
India , 1885–1893, Ireland, 1895–1899, and South Africa, 1899–1900,
Commander-in-Chief , 1901–1904, and
Indian Mutiny
Victoria Cross
Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), Editor,
Dictionary of National Biography , 1882–1891, and writer
Charles Stuart Aubrey Abbott, 3rd Baron Tenterden (1834–1882), diplomat
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913),
Vice-Chancellor ,
University of London , 1872–1880, Chairman,
London County Council , 1890–1892, banker, scientist,
archaeologist and author
Edward Ede (1834–1908), cricketer, twin brother of the below
George Ede (1834–1870), cricketer and jockey, winner of the
1868 Grand National , twin brother of the above
William Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton (1835–1897), KG,
Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
F. C. Burnand (1836–1917),
librettist , translator and dramatist
William Hartopp (1836–1874), cricketer and soldier
Sir
Frederick Albert Bosanquet (1837–1923),
Common Serjeant of London 1900–1917
Oscar Browning (1837–1923), historian
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poet
Edmond Warre (1837–1920), oarsman and Head Master (later Provost) of Eton
General Sir Redvers Buller (1839–1908),
Adjutant General , 1890–1897,
General Officer Commanding
Natal , 1899–1900, and
I Corps , 1901–1906, and
Zulu War
Victoria Cross
Col. Sir Francis Arthur Marindin (1838–1900), Senior Inspecting Officer of Railways, Board of Trade and President of
the Football Association .
Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839-1919) president of the
English Church Union from 1868 to 1919
1840s
Tankerville Chamberlayne (1840–1924), Member of Parliament for
Southampton
Charles Garnett (1840–1919), cricketer
Sir William Mackworth Young KCSI , Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab
Duncan Pocklington (1841–1870), cricketer and Oxford rower
Osbert Mordaunt (1842–1923), cricketer
William Rose (1842–1917), cricketer
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919),
Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics ,
University of Cambridge , 1879–1884, Professor of
natural philosophy ,
Royal Institution , 1887–1905, Secretary to the
Royal Society , 1887–1896, and
Nobel Laureate
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson (1842–1921),
Third Sea Lord , 1897–1901, Flag Officer Commanding
Channel Squadron , 1901–1908, and
Home Fleet , 1903–1907,
First Sea Lord , 1909–1912, and
Sudan Campaign
Victoria Cross
Edward Wynne-Finch (1842–1914), cricketer
Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge (1843–1911),
oarsman , cyclist,
runner and
sculptor
John Boddam-Whetham (1843–1918), naturalist and cricketer
James Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez (1843–1937), diplomat
[2]
Arthur Teape (1843–1885), cricketer
Robert Bridges (1844–1930),
Poet Laureate , 1913–1930
Arthur John Butler (1844–1910), professor of Italian language and literature at University College, London
[3]
Arthur Wood (1844–1933), cricketer
Quintin Hogg (1845–1903), sugar
merchant , philanthropist and
Scotland
footballer
General Sir Neville Lyttelton (1845–1931),
Commander-in-Chief , South Africa, 1902–1904,
Chief of the General Staff , 1904–1908,
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Ireland, 1908–1912, and Governor,
Royal Hospital Chelsea , 1912–1931
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845-1914),
Governor-General of Canada , 1878-1883
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927),
Governor-General of Canada , 1883–1888,
Viceroy of India , 1888–1893,
Secretary of State for War , 1895–1900, and
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1900–1905
Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps (1845–1913), Brazil merchant and
Conservative member of parliament for
Westbury (1880–1885)
Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937), Corpus Professor of
Jurisprudence ,
University of Oxford , 1883–1903
Vincent Coles (1845-1929), Principal of
Pusey House, Oxford 1897-1909.
Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919), father of
T. E. Lawrence
Sir Charles Edmond Knox (1846–1938), Lieutenant-General
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846–1935),
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , 1908–1909, and writer
Charles Alexander (1847–1902), cricketer and barrister
Lord William Beresford (1847–1900),
Zulu War
Victoria Cross
Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847–1923),
footballer , and President of
the Football Association , 1890–1923
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929),
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1892–1894, and
Prime Minister , 1894–1895
Martin Gosselin (1847-1905),
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal 1902-1905
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848–1930),
Prime Minister , 1902–1905,
First Lord of the Admiralty , 1915–1916, and
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1916–1919
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte (1848–1940),
Deputy Keeper of the Public Records , 1886–1926, and historian
Sir Hubert Parry (1848–1918), Director,
Royal College of Music , 1895–1918, Professor of Music,
University of Oxford , 1899–1908, and composer
Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), librettist who played
football as an amateur for the
Wanderers F.C. winning the
FA Cup in 1873, and was thus the first American to win an
FA Cup Final .
Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1894),
Secretary of State for India , 1885–1886, and
Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1886–1887
Sir Joseph Dimsdale (1849–1912),
Lord Mayor of London , 1901–1902, and politician
Lieut-Col
Richard W.B. Mirehouse (formerly Richard Walter Byrd Levett) (1849–1914),
High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire , 1886, and Lieutenant Colonel of
4th Batt. North Staffs Regiment .
[4]
1850s
Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906),
Downing Professor of the Laws of England ,
University of Cambridge , 1888–1906
William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth (1851–1936)
British peer ,
Conservative politician,
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
George Harris, 4th Baron Harris (1851–1932),
Governor of Bombay , 1890–1895, and England
cricketer
Sir John Murray (1851–1928), publisher
Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), writer, social reformer, socialist, animal rights campaigner, vegetarian, literary critic, and biographer
Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851–1942), literary historian
Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (1852–1930), Secretary,
Office of Works , 1895–1902,
defence
expert and writer
William Ellison-Macartney (1852–1924), MP for
South Antrim , 1885–1903,
Governor of Tasmania , 1913–1917,
Governor of Western Australia , 1917–1920
Reginald Hargreaves (1852–1926), cricketer
Arthur Lyttelton (1852–1903), Master of
Selwyn College, Cambridge , 1882–1893
Henry Legge (1852–1924), British soldier and
courtier
Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (1853–1945)
Conservative politician
Major Ernest Gambier-Parry (1853–1936),
Suakin Expedition 1885, author, musician, artist
Mark Hanbury Beaufoy (1854–1922)
Liberal member of parliament, author of 'Never, never, let your gun pointed be at anyone...'
Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920), Governor of the Bank of England
James Leigh Joynes (1854–1893), journalist, writer, poet and socialist activist
Sir Horace Plunkett (1854–1932), Irish politician and writer
Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), novelist
William Edwards (1855–1912),
Sudan Campaign
Victoria Cross
James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (1855–1949),
Conservative politician
Edward Lyttelton (1855–1942), Headmaster of
Haileybury School , 1890–1905, and
Eton , 1905–1916, and writer, who made one appearance for
England in
1878 .
St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (1856–1942),
Secretary of State for War , 1900–1903, and
Secretary of State for India , 1903–1905
Herbert Edward Ryle (1856–1925),
Old Testament scholar and
Dean of Westminster .
Algernon Haskett-Smith (1856–1887), cricketer
Alfred Lyttelton (1857–1913),
Colonial Secretary , 1903–1905, and
England footballer.
Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857–1932),
quartermaster general , 1904–1905,
General Officer Commanding
Northern Command , 1911–1914,
II Corps , 1914–1915,
Second Army , 1915–1917, 1918,
Italian Expeditionary Force , 1917–1918, and
British Army of the Rhine , 1918–1919,
Governor of Malta , 1919–1924, and
High Commissioner for Palestine , 1925–1928
Walter Forbes (1858–1933), cricketer
Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858–1923),
actor-manager
Sir Henry Miers (1858–1942),
Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy ,
University of Oxford , 1895–1908, principal,
University of London , 1908–1915, and
vice-chancellor ,
Victoria University of Manchester , 1915–1926
Sir Kynaston Studd (1858–1944),
Lord Mayor of London , 1928–1929, and philanthropist
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925),
Viceroy of India , 1899–1905, and
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1919–1924
Reginald Macaulay (1858–1937),
footballer who won the
FA Cup with
Old Etonians in
1882 and made one appearance for
England in
1878 .
Harry Goodhart (1858–1895), twice
FA Cup winner and
England international footballer, who went on to become Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University.
[5]
Arthur Chitty (1859–1908), cricketer and barrister
Sir Lionel Cust (1859–1929), Director,
National Portrait Gallery , 1895–1909, and
Surveyor of the King's Pictures , 1901–1927
Sidney Gambier-Parry (1859–1948),
ecclesiastical architect
Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859–1918),
Minister to
Persia , 1906–1908, and
Sweden , 1908–1912, and
ambassador to the United States, 1912–1918
James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet, tutor to Prince Albert Victor Edward (
Prince Eddy ), Virginia Woolf's cousin, Barrister, suffered from
bi-polar disorder , one of suspects as
Jack the Ripper
1860s
Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton (1860–1938),
Yorkshire
cricketer
William Inge (1860–1954),
Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity ,
University of Cambridge , 1907–1911, and
Dean of St Paul's , 1911–1934
John Frederick Peel Rawlinson (1860–1926),
footballer who won the
FA Cup with
Old Etonians in
1882 and made one appearance for
England
1881 , before serving as a member of parliament for
Cambridge University from 1906 to 1926.
Sir Eldon Gorst KCB,
Consul-General in Egypt .
George Lambton (1860–1945),
British flat racing Champion Trainer 1906, 1911 and 1912
Major-General Lawrence Drummond (1861–1946), First World War general
[6]
Arthur Cairns, 2nd Earl Cairns (1861–1890), Private Secretary to the President of the
Board of Trade
Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1861–1938), poet, historian and senior civil servant
Walter Henry Montagu Douglas Scott (1861–1886), Scottish cricketer and nobleman
A. C. Benson (1862–1925), Master of
Magdalene College, Cambridge , 1915–1925, and writer
Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham (1862–1933), Managing
Proprietor ,
The Daily Telegraph , 1903–1928, and politician
Field Marshal Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862–1935),
General Officer Commanding
Egypt , 1912–1914,
Cavalry Corps , 1915,
IX Corps , 1915–1916,
XVII Corps , 1916,
Canadian Corps , 1916–1917, and
Third Army , 1917–1919,
Governor-General of Canada , 1921–1926, and
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , 1928–1931
M. R. James (1862–1936), author,
antiquary , Director,
Fitzwilliam Museum ,
University of Cambridge , 1894–1908,
Vice-Chancellor ,
University of Cambridge , 1913–1915, and
Provost of Eton , 1918–1936
William Bromley-Davenport (1862–1949), MP, soldier, England footballer 1884, and
Provost of Eton , 1918–1936
Sir
William Rees-Davies (1863–1939), Chief Justice of Hong Kong
Arthur Studd (1863–1919), cricketer, artist and art collector – one of the
Studd brothers
Arthur Bourchier (1864–1927),
actor-manager
Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis (1864–1935), politician
Brigadier-General George Colborne Nugent (1864–1915),
Second Boer War , Killed in
World War I
Ralph Pemberton (1864–1931), cricketer
Walter Seton (1864–1912), barrister, cricketer and soldier
Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence (1865–1914),
Second Boer War
Victoria Cross , killed in
World War I
Evelyn Metcalfe (1865–1951), cricketer
George Murray (1865–1939),
Heath Professor of Comparative Pathology ,
University of Durham , 1893–1908, and Professor of Systematic Medicine,
Victoria University of Manchester , 1908–1925
Sidney James Agar, 4th Earl of Normanton (1865–1933)
John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1866–1929),
automobile
enthusiast and
expert
Guy Nickalls (1866–1935), Olympic
oarsman
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe (1867–1958),
Governor-General of New Zealand , 1930–1935, politician and
agriculturist
Algernon Burnaby (1868–1938), landowner, soldier, and Master of the
Quorn Hunt
The Hon.
Henry Coventry (1868–1934), cricketer
Sir George Herbert Duckworth (1868–1934), public servant
Willie Llewelyn (1868–1893), cricketer
Lord Henry Scott (1868–1945), cricketer, British Army soldier and deputy-governor of the
Bank of Scotland
George Thesiger (1868–1915), General killed in action at the
battle of Loos
Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868–1938),
Governor General of Canada 1916–1921.
Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (1869–1935), diplomat
Godfrey Foljambe (1869–1942), cricketer
1870s
Brigadier-General
Charles Strathavon Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1870–1949), soldier
Montague MacLean (1870–1951), cricketer
John Dawson (1871–1948), cricketer
Major-General Sir John Gough (1871–1915),
Somaliland Campaign
Victoria Cross
Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (1871–1950), Governor,
Bank of England , 1920–1944
Sir Home Gordon (1871–1956), 12th Baronet Gordon of
Embo , Sutherland,
cricket writer and journalist
Harold Basil Christian (1871–1950), South African/
Rhodesian farmer, botanist,
horticulturist focusing on
aloe and
cycad
[7]
Arthur Hoare (1871–1941), cricketer and clergyman
Richard Jones (1871–1940), cricketer
Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore (1872–1962),
Malakand Campaign
Victoria Cross
Algernon Temple-Gore-Langton, 5th Earl Temple of Stowe (1871–1940)
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham (1872–1950),
Attorney General , 1922–1924, 1924–1928,
Lord Chancellor , 1928–1929, 1935–1938, and
Secretary of State for War , 1931–1935
Brigadier General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1872–1955),
Governor of South Australia , 1928–1934, and
New South Wales , 1935–1936,
Governor-General of Australia , 1936–1944, and
Sudan Campaign
Victoria Cross
Frederick Roberts (1872–1899),
Boer War
Victoria Cross
Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet (1872–1942), inventor of the
Ross Rifle
Maurice Baring (1874–1945), poet, writer and journalist
Major-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957),
Governor-General of South Africa , 1923–1931, and
Canada , 1940–1946
Sir George Russell Clerk (1874–1951),
British Ambassador to France , 1934–1937
Geoffrey Dawson (1874–1944), Editor,
The Times , 1912–1919, 1923–1941
Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore (1875–1948),
Chairman of Committees ,
House of Lords , 1911–1931
Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (1875–1947), Professor of
Physics ,
Imperial College, London , 1908–1919
Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1875–1931),
MP for
Eddisbury , 1906–1910,
Governor of Victoria , 1914–1920, and Chairman of the
Royal Colonial Institute , 1925–1928
Sir Trevor Bigham (1876–1954),
Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , 1914–1931, and
Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , 1931–1935
Charles Burnell (1876–1969),
oarsman
Brigadier-General John Campbell (1876–1944),
First World War
Victoria Cross
Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golfer and
sportswriter
Edward Dent (1876–1957), Professor of Music,
University of Cambridge , 1926–1941, and
musicologist
Arnold Ward (1876–1950) journalist, solicitor,
MP
Arthur Hollins (1876–1938), cricketer and chairman of
Preston North End F.C.
HRH Prince Aga Khan III (1877–1957), 48th
Imam of the
Shia
Ismaili
Muslims
Bernard Bosanquet (1877–1936),
cricketer
Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952),
literary critic and writer
Roger Quilter (1877–1953), composer
Charles Rolls (1877–1910), managing director,
Rolls-Royce , 1906–1910, engineer,
aviator , cyclist,
racing driver ,
land speed record holder and first British air accident fatality
Hubert Carr-Gomm (1877–1939), Liberal MP for Rotherhithe, 1906–18 and assistant secretary to
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877–1955), Chairman,
BBC , 1927–1930,
Governor-General of South Africa , 1931–1937, and
Lord Chamberlain , 1938–1952
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), writer
Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879–1953),
industrialist ,
horticulturalist and politician
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879–1952),
Proprietor ,
The Observer , 1911–1945,
Lord Mayor of Plymouth , 1939–1944, and politician
Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside (1879–1958),
Speaker of the House of Commons , 1943–1951
Sir Gerald Kelly (1879–1972),
portrait painter and President of the
Royal Academy , 1949–1954
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd (1879–1941),
Governor of Bombay , 1918–1923,
High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan , 1925–1929, and
Colonial Secretary , 1940–1941
1880s
George Boyd-Rochfort (1880–1940),
First World War
Victoria Cross
Henry James Bruce (1880–1951), diplomat and author
Francis Grenfell (1880–1915),
First World War
Victoria Cross
Lawrence Oates (1880–1912),
Antarctic explorer
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880–1944)
Oliver Locker-Lampson (1880–1954)
MP
Edward Ede (1881–1936), cricketer
Lewis Evans (VC) (1881–1962)
Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916), composer
Lewis John Mason Grant (1881- 1975), painter
Sir Albert Napier (1881–1973),
Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
William Payne-Gallwey (1881-1914), cricketer
Eustachy, Prince Sapieha (1881–1963),
Polish
Foreign Secretary
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart (1881–1957)
Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson (1881–1964)
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881–1959)
Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory (1881–1918), cricketer and soldier
John Christie (1882–1962)
Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974)
Christopher Stone (1882–1965)
Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883–1938)
Arthur Borton (1883–1933)
John Maynard Keynes, 1st baron keynes (1883–1946)
George Lyttelton (1883–1962)
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (1883–1950)
Alexander Cadogan (1884–1968)
Alfred Dillwyn Knox (1884–1943)
John Murray (1884–1967)
George Butterworth (1885–1916)
Shane Leslie (1885–1971)
Sir Horace James Seymour (1885–1978)
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever (1886–1971)
Geoffrey Drummond (1886–1941)
Henry Dunell (1886–1950)
Myles Kenyon (1886–1960)
Sir Albert Charles Gladstone, 5th Baronet, of Fasque (1886–1967)
Hugh Dalton (1887–1962)
Denys Finch Hatton (1887–1931)
Julian Huxley (1887–1975)
Henry Moseley (1887–1915)
Julian Grenfell (1888–1915)
Sir Charles Andrew Gladstone, 6th Baronet, of Fasque (1888–1968)
Ronald Knox (1888–1957)
Thomas Ralph Merton (1888–1969)
Patrick Shaw-Stewart (1888–1917)
Neville Elliott-Cooper (1889–1918)
Eugen Millington-Drake (1889–1972)
Walter Styles (1889–1965)
1890s
Philip Bainbrigge (1890–1918), writer
Alfred "Duff" Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890–1954)
Percy Hansen (1890–1951)
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890–1970)
Edmond Foljambe (1890–1960), first-class cricketer
Stewart Menzies (1890–1968), head of
MI6 during
World War II
Archer Windsor-Clive (1890–1914), the first
first-class cricketer to be killed during
World War I
Anthony Muirhead (1890–1939),
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Wells in
Somerset 1929-1939
Arthur Batten-Pooll (1891–1971),
First World War soldier who was awarded the
Victoria Cross
William Congreve (1891–1916),
First World War soldier,
Victoria Cross
Walter D'Arcy Hall (1891–1980), soldier,
Member of Parliament
Edward Stephenson (1891–1969), cricketer and soldier
William Boswell (1892–1916), cricketer
Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges (1892–1969),
Cabinet Secretary , 1938–1945, and
Permanent Secretary to the Treasury , 1945–1956
Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis (1892–1982)
Sir Reginald Graham (1892–1980),
First World War
Victoria Cross
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), Professor of
Genetics and of
Biometry ,
University College, London , 1933–1957
Ewart Horsfall (1892–1974), oarsman who competed in the
1912 and
1920 Summer Olympics
Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer
George Llewelyn Davies (1893–1915), along with his four younger brothers the inspiration for playwright J. M. Barrie's characters of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, killed in action in the
Second Battle of Ypres , Belgium, 15 March 1915
General Sir
Frank Messervy (1893–1974),
British Indian Army officer in the First and Second World Wars. First
Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army following independence
HM King Prajadhipok of Siam (1893–1941),
King of Siam , 1925–1935
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893–1972),
Colonial Secretary , 1951–1954
William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill (1893-1965), naval aviator and traitor
Brigadier Sir Richard Gambier-Parry, KCMG (1894–1965), head of Section VIII of the
Secret Intelligence Service , Director of Communications
Hanslope Park ,
Operation Tracer
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist
General Sir Oliver Leese (1894–1978), General Officer Commanding
XXX Corps , 1942–1943, GOC
Eighth Army , 1943–1944,
Commander-in-Chief , Allied Land Forces, South-East Asia, 1944–1945, and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, 1945–1946
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894–1986),
Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1955–1957, and
Prime Minister , 1957–1963
Peter Warlock (1894–1930), composer and writer on music
Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan (1895–1977),
Chief Scout of the
Commonwealth , 1945–1959, and
Governor of Tasmania , 1959–1963
Terence Gray (
Wei Wu Wei ) (1895–1987), theatrical producer, author
Geoffrey Madan (1895–1947), anthologist
Colonel George Edward Younghusband CBE (1896–1970), soldier serving in WWI and WWII, POW Italy,
Vincigliata ,
Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning (1896–1965), General Officer Commanding
I Airborne Corps , 1943–1944
John Dunville (1896–1917),
First World War
Victoria Cross
Tim Massy-Beresford (1896–1987), British Army officer
Sir Henry Segrave (1896–1930), engineer,
racing driver ,
aviator and holder of
land speed record
Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977),
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1935–1938, 1940–1945, 1951–1955, and
Prime Minister , 1955–1957
Arthur Rhys Davids (1897–1917).
Royal Flying Corps
Distinguished Service Order ,
Military Cross
First World War .
Julian Royds Gribble (1897–1918),
First World War
Victoria Cross
Peter Llewelyn Davies (1897–1960), awarded the Military Cross for service during World War I; in 1926 founded the publishing house Peter Davies Ltd.
Lieutenant-General Herbert Lumsden (1897–1945)
Francis Manners, 4th Baron Manners (1897–1972)
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988)
General Sir Richard McCreery (1898–1967), General Officer Commanding
Eighth Army , Northern Italy, 1944–1945
Colin Hercules Mackenzie (1898–1986), founder of
Force 136
Leo d'Erlanger (1898–1978), banker
John Cobb (1899–1952),
racing driver and holder of
land speed record
Christopher Hussey (1899–1970),
architectural historian and writer
Henry Gray Studholme Bt. (1899–1987) Conservative MP
Thomas Brocklebank Baronet and cricketer (1899–1953)
George Scott-Chad (1899–1950), cricketer
See also
References
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^ J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses , Part II (1752 to 1900), vol. V (1953), p. 424
^
Obituary: Mr. Arthur John Butler from The Times , 28 February 1910 , at
Wikisource
^
The Eton Register, Part III: 1862–1868, Eton College, Old Etonian Association, Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., Eton, 1906
^
"Harry Chester Goodhart" . England Players . englandfootballonline. Retrieved 4 February 2011 .
^ 'Drummond, Maj.-Gen. Laurence (George)' in
Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black)
^ Kimberley, Michael J. (March 1977).
"Harold Basil Christian: An Early Rhodesian botanist" (PDF) .
Rhodesiana . 36 : 37–46.