Eton College

Eton College, the English public school founded in 1440 by King Henry VI

Country

the United Kingdom

Location

England; Windsor; Berkshire; Eton, England; the United Kingdom

Website

http://www.etoncollege.com

Births

Oliver Leese, Michael Holroyd, Roland Gibbs, Hugo Williams, Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College

Founded

1440, Henry VI of England

Slogan

"Floreat Etona"

Deaths

Ralph Allwood

Coordinates

▶ 51°29'30.73"N, 51°29'30.12"N, 51°29'30"N, 0°36'28.51"W, 0°36'33.84"W,  …

0°36'33"W

Principal

Anthony R. M. Little

Membership

1,300; 1,309

Colour

Eton blue

Alumni

▶ Hugh Laurie; Bear Grylls; George Orwell; Prince William of Wales; John Maynard Keynes;  …

Ian Fleming; Prince Harry of Wales; Dominic West; Boris Johnson; David Cameron; Arthur Wellesley; Damian Lewis; Charles Grey; Robert Boyle; Jeremy Brett; Stephen Wolfram; Ranulph Fiennes; Harold Macmillan; Prince Edward; Abhisit Vejjajiva; Charles Cornwallis; Anthony Eden; Charles Shaughnessy; Henry Fielding; Nathaniel Philip Rothschild; William Ewart Gladstone; Robert Walpole; Beau Brummell; Prince Michael of Kent; Patrick Macnee; Simon Woods; Eddie Redmayne; Alec Douglas-Home; William Pitt; Henry Moseley; James Oglethorpe; Thomas Gray; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Prince Henry; Peregrine Cavendish; Simon Mann; Charles Spencer; Charles James Fox; Arthur Balfour; Guy Burgess; Antony Armstrong-Jones; Jacob Rothschild; John Montagu; Leopold III of Belgium; Richard Bingham; Randolph Churchill; Dipendra of Nepal; James Goldsmith; Oliver James; Lord Frederick Windsor; Julian Huxley; John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer; Lord Randolph Churchill; Joseph Banks; Frank Turner; George Grenville; John Herschel; Alan Clark; Ian Ogilvy; Harry Lloyd; Aga Khan III; Alexander Windsor; J. B. S. Haldane; Jonathan Aitken; Bill Turnbull; Humphrey Lyttelton; Matthew Pinsent; Lawrence Oates; James Wood; Peter Llewelyn-Davies; Rory Stewart; Tom Parker Bowles; William Cavendish; Max Pirkis; William Lamb; Frederick North; Peter Carington; Birendra of Nepal; Pico Iyer; John Maynard Smith; Michael Bentine; Prince William of Gloucester; Alfred Ayer; Humphrey Gilbert; Bamber Gascoigne; Algernon Swinburne; Jeremy Thorpe; Arthur Wellesley; George Canning; Andrew Cavendish; E. F. L. Wood; George Lamb; George Windsor; Frank Pakenham; Anthony Powell; Alexander Thynn; George Curzon; Prajadhipok; Horace Walpole; William Cavendish; Derek Parfit; Archibald Primrose; Zac Goldsmith; Edward Smith-Stanley; Airey Neave; Michael Llewelyn-Davies; John Graves Simcoe; Douglas Hurd; Frederick Stanley; Henry Blofeld; Peter Hill-Wood; Adam Hart-Davis; Matt Ridley; Victor Hervey; Frederick Roberts; Thomas Augustine Arne; Howard Hodgkin; Peter Benenson; Charles Gordon-Lennox; Edward Plunkett; Tam Dalyell; Tom Hiddleston; Daniel Massey; Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Crown Prince of Ethiopia; Hubert Parry; Ludovic Kennedy; Derek Prince; Edward Windsor; Charles Villiers Stanford; Brian Johnston; Cyril Connolly; John Stuart; John Julius Norwich; Nicky Gumbel; Oliver Milburn; James Hamilton; Darius Guppy; George Llewelyn-Davies; Perry Anderson; Christopher Cazenove; James FitzRoy; Wilfred Thesiger; Nicholas Llewelyn-Davies; Julian Ovenden; Richard Scott; Peter Fleming; Dominic Lawson; Steven Runciman; Richard Wellesley; Piers Courage; Oliver Letwin; David Somerset; Jonathon Porritt; Angus Ogilvy; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil; Victor Cavendish; William Oughtred; Robert Boothby; Charles Townshend; John Standing; Douglas Douglas-Hamilton; Ronald Knox; Duff Cooper; Fitzroy Maclean; Henry Green; Ben Goldsmith; Robin Lane Fox; Michael Morris; Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Arthur Wellesley; Quintin Hogg; Francis Egerton; Thomas P. G. Cholmondeley; Dai Llewellyn; Frederick Spencer; Robert Fulton; Duncan Sandys; Waldorf Astor; Hugh Hudson; Henry Scott Holland; Douglas Hogg; Angus Douglas-Hamilton; John Bayley; Mark Fiennes; Guy Innes-Ker; Cooper; Francis Urquhart; Ronald Ferguson; Charles Nall-Cain; Leslie Stephen; William Waldegrave; David Cholmondeley; Henry St John; William Timothy Gowers; Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Employees

John le Carré, Thomas Huxley, Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt

Pupils

▶ Hugh Laurie; Bear Grylls; Prince William of Wales; John Maynard Keynes; Ian Fleming;  …

Prince Harry of Wales; Dominic West; Boris Johnson; Arthur Wellesley; Damian Lewis; Charles Grey; Robert Boyle; Jeremy Brett; Stephen Wolfram; Ranulph Fiennes; Harold Macmillan; Prince Edward; Charles Cornwallis; Anthony Eden; Charles Shaughnessy; Henry Fielding; William Ewart Gladstone; Robert Walpole; Prince Michael of Kent; Patrick Macnee; Simon Woods; Eddie Redmayne; Alec Douglas-Home; William Pitt; Henry Moseley; Thomas Gray; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Prince Henry; Peregrine Cavendish; Charles Spencer; Charles James Fox; Arthur Balfour; Guy Burgess; Antony Armstrong-Jones; Jacob Rothschild; John Montagu; Leopold III of Belgium; Richard Bingham; Randolph Churchill; Dipendra of Nepal; James Goldsmith; Lord Frederick Windsor; Julian Huxley; John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer; Lord Randolph Churchill; Joseph Banks; Frank Turner; George Grenville; John Herschel; Alan Clark; Ian Ogilvy; Harry Lloyd; Aga Khan III; Alexander Windsor; Jonathan Aitken; Bill Turnbull; Humphrey Lyttelton; Matthew Pinsent; Lawrence Oates; James Wood; Rory Stewart; Tom Parker Bowles; William Cavendish; Max Pirkis; William Lamb; Frederick North; Peter Carington; Birendra of Nepal; Pico Iyer; John Maynard Smith; Michael Bentine; Prince William of Gloucester; Humphrey Gilbert; Bamber Gascoigne; Algernon Swinburne; Jeremy Thorpe; Arthur Wellesley; George Canning; Andrew Cavendish; E. F. L. Wood; George Lamb; Frank Pakenham; Anthony Powell; Alexander Thynn; George Curzon; Prajadhipok; Horace Walpole; William Cavendish; Derek Parfit; Archibald Primrose; Zac Goldsmith; Edward Smith-Stanley; Airey Neave; John Graves Simcoe; Douglas Hurd; Frederick Stanley; Henry Blofeld; Peter Hill-Wood; Adam Hart-Davis; Matt Ridley; Victor Hervey; Frederick Roberts; Thomas Augustine Arne; Howard Hodgkin; Peter Benenson; Charles Gordon-Lennox; Edward Plunkett; Tam Dalyell; Daniel Massey; Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Crown Prince of Ethiopia; Hubert Parry; Ludovic Kennedy; Derek Prince; Charles Villiers Stanford; Brian Johnston; Cyril Connolly; John Stuart; John Julius Norwich; James Hamilton; George Llewelyn-Davies; Christopher Cazenove; James FitzRoy; Wilfred Thesiger; Peter Fleming; Dominic Lawson; Steven Runciman; Richard Wellesley; Piers Courage; Oliver Letwin; David Somerset; Angus Ogilvy; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil; Victor Cavendish; William Oughtred; Robert Boothby; John Standing; Douglas Douglas-Hamilton; Ronald Knox; Duff Cooper; Fitzroy Maclean; Michael Morris; Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Arthur Wellesley; Quintin Hogg; Francis Egerton; Thomas P. G. Cholmondeley; Frederick Spencer; Robert Fulton; Waldorf Astor; Hugh Hudson; Henry Scott Holland; Douglas Hogg; Angus Douglas-Hamilton; John Bayley; Mark Fiennes; Guy Innes-Ker; Ronald Ferguson; Leslie Stephen; William Waldegrave; William Timothy Gowers; Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; Sir George Young; Harold Acton; Lord Nicholas Hervey; Arthur Wellesley; Peter Dickinson; Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu; Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll; Francis Pym; Robin Milner; John Spencer-Churchill; George Butterworth; Charles Studd; Nicholas Mosley; Hugh Dalton; Stewart Menzies; William Ralph Inge; Jo Grimond; Freeman Freeman-Thomas; David Ogilvy; Frederick Stanley Maude; William Wyndham Grenville; Francis Dashwood; John Michell; Montagu Norman; Granville Leveson-Gower; Andrew Bruce; Nicholas Rowe; Edward Bouverie Pusey; Charles Rolls; Mark Aitchison Young; William Fox-Pitt; George Spencer; John Jacob Astor; Jonathan Guinness

Class

▶ public school, boarding school, Anglican school, sports venue, private school,  …

school, building or building complex, organisation classified by activity, business, Independent school, organisation, educational organisation, geographical area

Involved in Inventing

football

Former Students

▶ George Herbert; Robert Devereux; Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley; Hugh FitzRoy; Charles Gordon-Lennox;  …

Peter Warlock; Henry More; Matthew Fort; Charles Innes-Ker; Robert Fraser; Nigel Nicolson; H. Jones; John Charles Ryle; Douglas Murray; David Sainsbury

Related Websites

http://www.etoncollege.com/; http://www.isinspect.org.uk/report/0374.htm; http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901060626-1205329-1,00.html

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Rare Terms

"old etonians", "etonian"

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