List of former pupils of Eton College, UK
The Old Etonian Tie: black with Eton blue stripes This is a list of notable former pupils of Eton College , a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire , England. Former pupils of the school are known as Old Etonians .
Politics
Robert Walpole , 1st Earl of Orford, first Prime Minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Elder , 1st Earl of Chatham, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomWilliam Ewart Gladstone , former Prime Minister of the United KingdomRobert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , former Prime Minister of the United KingdomArthur James Balfour , 1st Earl of Balfour, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomAnthony Eden , 1st Earl of Avon, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomHarold Macmillan , 1st Earl of Stockton, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomAlec Douglas-Home , Baron Home of the Hirsel, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomDavid Cameron , Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomBoris Johnson , former Prime Minister of the United KingdomAbhisit Vejjajiva , former Prime Minister of Thailand Kwasi Kwarteng , former Chancellor of the Exchequer [ 1] Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , former Prime Minister of the United KingdomLord Curzon , former Viceroy of India Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire , former Governor General of Canada Tam Dalyell , former Labour MPEton has produced twenty British prime ministers . Eleven of them are shown above.
Royalty and nobility
This is an incomplete list of pupils from aristocratic and royal families , some of whom have been sending their sons to Eton for generations.
British
Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (1860–1939)Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953)Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974)George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923–2011), son of Mary, Princess Royal and Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood [ 2] John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926–2014)[ 3] Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (born 1935)Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972)Prince Michael of Kent (born 1942)[ 4] Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (born 1944)Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland (1953 – 1995)George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (born 1962)[ 5] James Ogilvy (born 1964), son of Princess Alexandra and the Rt Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (born 1964), brother of Diana, Princess of Wales [ 6] Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster (born 1974)Lord Frederick Windsor (born 1979)William, Prince of Wales (born 1982)[ 7] Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984)[ 8] Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 1988)[ 9] Lord Max Percy (born 1990), son of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland Samuel Chatto (born 1996), son of Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto Arthur Chatto (born 1999), son of Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (born 1999)[ 10]
Foreign
Writers
Scientists
Journalists
Timothy Brinton , 1950s BBC newsreader and 1960s ITN newscasterNicholas Coleridge , president of Conde Nast International and managing director of Condé Nast UKGeordie Greig , current editor of The Mail on Sunday Julian Haviland , former political editor of ITN and The Times David Jessel , BBC current affairs presenterLudovic Kennedy , former ITN newscaster and BBC Panorama presenterJames Landale , current BBC diplomatic correspondentCharles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham , former editor of The Daily Telegraph Ferdinand Mount , former editor of The Spectator John Oaksey , former chief ITV and Channel 4 racing commentatorDavid Shukman , BBC science editorCorbet Woodall , 1960s BBC newsreader
Actors
Music
Thomas Arne , composerGerald Hugh Tyrwhitt, 14th Lord Berners , composer and novelistGeorge Butterworth , composerJohn Macleod Campbell Crum , priest and hymnwriterThomas Dunhill , composerVictor Hely-Hutchinson , composer and conductorFrederick Septimus Kelly , musician and composerHumphrey Lyttelton , jazz trumpeterHubert Parry , writer of the hymn "Jerusalem " and the coronation anthem "I was glad "Roger Quilter , composerDonald Tovey , musicologistFrank Turner , musicianAtticus Ross , musician and film composerPhilip Heseltine , Anglo-Welsh composer and writer (pseudonym Peter Warlock)David Watson , music producer
Others
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , Nazi SA ObergruppenführerFrancis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame , ambassadorHenry Blofeld , cricket commentatorBeau Brummell , dandyGuy Burgess , diplomat and spyJulian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy , WWI commander and Governor-General of CanadaAlan Clark , MP and authorJohn Collier , painterJames Colthurst , radiologist and friend of Diana, Princess of Wales Piers Courage , Formula 1 racing driverCharles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home , father of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home Ranulph Fiennes , explorerAlexander Fiske-Harrison , bullfighter and authorIvo Graham , comedianBear Grylls , adventurerWilliam Inge , Dean of St Paul's CathedralJohn Maynard Keynes , economistRichard Layard, Baron Layard , economistOliver Leese , WWII commander 8th ArmyFrederick Stanley Maude , WWI commanderStewart Menzies , WWII head of MI6 Alexander Nix , CEO of Cambridge Analytica Nigel Oakes , CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group Lawrence Oates , Antarctic explorerDerek Parfit , philosopherHerbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer , WWI commanderPaul Raison , art historian and former Chairman of Christie's Timothy Raison , MP and Government ministerHenry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson , WWI commander, ultimately Commander in Chief IndiaCharles Studd , cricketer and missionaryJustin Welby , Archbishop of CanterburyHenry Maitland Wilson , WWII commanderTimothy Yates , theologian, vicar and historianHumphrey Smith – owner of Samuel Smith Old Brewery Thirty-seven Old Etonians have been awarded the Victoria Cross —the largest number to alumni of any school (see List of Victoria Crosses by school).
See also
References
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