List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century


List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century - Definition

The following famous old boys of Eton College were born in the 18th century.

Thomas Morell (1703–1784), classical scholar
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (1705–1774), Secretary at War, 1746–1754, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, 1755–1756, and Paymaster-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
George Grenville (1712–1770), First Lord of the Admiralty, 1762–1763, Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1763–1765
Frederick Cornwallis (1713–1783), Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1750–1766, Dean of St Paul's, 1766–1768, and Archbishop 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, and antiquary
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 and politician
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), First Lord of the Admiralty, 1748–1751, 1771–1782, and Secretary of State for the Northern Department, 1763–1765, 1770–1771
George Selwyn (1719–1791), politician and wit
Lieutenant General John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721–1770), Master-General of the Ordnance, 1763–1766, and Commander-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 to Portugal, 1766–1771
Brigadier General George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (1725–1758), soldier
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, and Vice-Admiral of England, 1792–1796
General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729–1814), Commander-in-Chief, North America, 1775–1778, and Lieutenant General of Ordnance, 1782–1803
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, and Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, 1804–1814
Shute Barrington (1734–1826), Bishop of Llandaff, 1769–1782, Salisbury, 1782–1791, and Durham, 1791–1826
John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), politician and philologist
General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), Governor-General of India, 1786–1793, Master-General of the Ordnance, 1795–1801, and Viceroy of Ireland, 1798–1801
Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), naturalist and President of the Royal Society, 1778–1820
Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779), politician
Thomas Fyshe Palmer (1747–1802), Unitarian minister
Charles James Fox (1749–1806), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1782, 1783, 1806
Thomas Lynch, Jr. (1749–1779), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), politician and agitator
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753–1816), politician and scientist
General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore (1757–1832), Commander-in-Chief, Egypt, 1801
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, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1821–1828, 1833–1834
William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington (1763–1845), Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1809–1812, and Master 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, the Deccan, 1803–1805, and the Iberian 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 and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1827
John Keate (1773–1852), Headmaster of Eton, 1809–1834
George 'Beau' Brummell (1778–1840), dandy
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, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1848–1862
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786–1880), ambassador
Charles Richard Sumner (1790–1874), Bishop of Winchester, 1827–1874
Sir John Herschel (1792–1871), astronomer and mathematician
John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792–1840), Governor-General of Canada, 1838–1840, and politician
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865), Clerk to the Council, 1821–1859
Sir John Shaw-Lefevre (1797–1879), Vice-Chancellor, University of London, 1842–1862, and Clerk 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, and Lord Chief Justice, 1832–1850
Edward 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

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