- List of Old Etonians born in the 18th century
The following notable old boys of
Eton College were born in the18th century .1700s
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Thomas Morell (1703–1784), classicalscholar
*Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (1705–1774),Secretary at War , 1746–1754,Secretary of State for the Southern Department , 1755–1756, andPaymaster-General , 1757–1765
*Henry Fielding (1707–1754),novelist
*William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778),Paymaster-General , 1746–1755,Secretary of State for the Southern Department , 1756–1757, 1757–1761, and Prime Minister, 1766–1768
*Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer (1708–1781),Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1762–1763
*George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773),Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1755–1756
*Thomas Arne (1710–1778),composer 1710s
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George Grenville (1712–1770),First Lord of the Admiralty , 1762–1763, Prime Minister andChancellor of the Exchequer , 1763–1765
*Frederick Cornwallis (1713–1783),Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry , 1750–1766,Dean of St Paul's , 1766–1768, andArchbishop of Canterbury , 1768–1783
*John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792),Secretary of State for the Northern Department , 1761–1762, and Prime Minister, 1762–1763
*Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714–1794),Lord Chancellor , 1771–1778
*Charles Lyttelton (1714–1768),Bishop of Carlisle , 1762–1768, andantiquary
*Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714–1794),Lord Chancellor , 1766–1770
*Thomas Gray (1716–1771),poet
*Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–1797),author andpolitician
*John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792),First Lord of the Admiralty , 1748–1751, 1771–1782, andSecretary of State for the Northern Department , 1763–1765, 1770–1771
*George Selwyn (1719–1791),politician andwit 1720s
*Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721–1770),
Master-General of the Ordnance , 1763–1766, andCommander-in-Chief of the Forces , 1766–1770
*William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley (1724–1808),Governor of South Carolina , 1756–1760, and Jamaica, 1762–1766, and Ambassador toPortugal , 1766–1771
*Brigadier-General George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (1725–1758),soldier
*Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes (1726–1792),advocate ,historian , and Scottish Lord of Session, 1766–1792, and Lord of Justiciary, 1776–1792
*Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799),Commander-in-Chief ,North American Station , 1775–1778,First Lord of the Admiralty , 1783–1788, andVice-Admiral of England , 1792–1796
*General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729–1814),Commander-in-Chief ,North America , 1775–1778, andLieutenant-General of Ordnance , 1782–18031730s
*Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guildford (8th Baron North) (1732–1792),
Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1767–1770, and Prime Minister, 1770–1782
*Sir James Mansfield (1733–1821), Solicitor General, 1780–1782, andLord Chief Justice of Common Pleas , 1804–1814
*Shute Barrington (1734–1826),Bishop of Llandaff , 1769–1782, Salisbury, 1782–1791, and Durham, 1791–1826
*Charles de Salis (1736–1781), Anglo-Swiss traveller
*John Horne Tooke (1736–1812),politician andphilologist
*Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736–1819),politician and topographer
*General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805),Governor-General of India , 1786–1793,Master-General of the Ordnance , 1795–1801, andViceroy of Ireland , 1798–18011740s
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Henry Jerome de Salis FRS (1740–1810),clergyman andantiquarian
*Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), naturalist andPresident of the Royal Society , 1778–1820
*Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779),politician
*Thomas Fyshe Palmer (1747–1802),Unitarian minister
*William Coxe (1747–1828),historian
*Sir Uvedale Price (1747–1829),author
*Charles James Fox (1749–1806),Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1782, 1783, 1806
*Thomas Lynch, Jr. (1749–1779), signatory of theUnited States Declaration of Independence 1750s
*Lord George Gordon (1751–1793),
politician andagitator
*Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753–1816),politician andscientist
*George Cranfield Berkeley (1753–1818), senior Royal Navy admiral
*Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753–1827), art patron
*General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore (1757–1832),Commander-in-Chief ,Egypt , 1801
*Lieutenant-Colonel John Enys (1757–1818), soldier
*William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759–1834),Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1791–1801, and Prime Minister, 1806–1807
*Richard Porson (1759–1808), Regius Professor of Greek,University of Cambridge , 1792–1808
*Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842),Governor-General of India , 1797–1805,Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1809–1812, andLord Lieutenant of Ireland , 1821–1828, 1833–18341760s
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William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington (1763–1845),Chief Secretary for Ireland , 1809–1812, andMaster of the Mint , 1814–1823
*Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845),Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1806–1807, and Prime Minister, 1830–1834
*Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), Commander,Mysore , 1799–1802, theDeccan , 1803–1805, and theIberian Peninsula , 1808–1814,Master-General of the Ordnance , 1818–1827,Commander-in-Chief of the Forces , 1827–1828, 1842–1852, and Prime Minister, 1828–1830, 1834
*George Canning (1770–1827),Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , 1807–1809, 1822–1827, Prime Minister andChancellor of the Exchequer , 18271770s
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John Keate (1773–1852),Headmaster of Eton , 1809–1834
*George 'Beau' Brummell (1778–1840),dandy
*John Rogers (1778–1856), theologian, landlord and scientist.
*William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848),Home Secretary , 1830–1834, and Prime Minister, 1834, 1835–1841
*John Bird Sumner (1780–1862),Bishop of Chester , 1828–1848, andArchbishop of Canterbury , 1848–18621780s
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Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786–1880), ambassador
*Charles Richard Sumner (1790–1874),Bishop of Winchester , 1827–18741790s
*Sir John Herschel (1792–1871),
astronomer andmathematician
*John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792–1840),Governor-General of Canada , 1838–1840, andpolitician
*Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822),poet
*Major-General Sir George Cathcart (1794–1854) Governor ofCape Colony , 1852–1853
*Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865),Clerk to the Council , 1821–1859
*Rees Howell Gronow (1794–1865), Welsh Grenadier Guards officer and memoirist
*Samuel Jones-Loyd, Baron Overstone (1796–1883), Banker and politician
*Joseph Henry Blake (1797–1849), Irish peer and socialist
*Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre (1797–1879),Vice-Chancellor ,University of London , 1842–1862, andClerk of the Parliaments , 1855–1875
*William Evans (1798–1877), painter and schoolmaster at Eton
*Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman (1799–1854), Attorney General, 1830–1832, andLord Chief Justice , 1832–1850
*Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869),Colonial Secretary , 1833–1834, and Prime Minister, 1852, 1858–1859, 1866–1868
*Edward Pusey (1800–1882), Regius Professor of Hebrew,University of Oxford , 1828–1882
*John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton (1799–1880 )Politician ee also
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List of notable Old Etonians born before the 18th century
*List of notable Old Etonians born in the 19th century
*List of notable Old Etonians born in the 20th century
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