List of Old Etonians born in the 18th century explained
The following notable old boys of Eton College were born in the 18th century.
1700s
- 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
- Other Windsor, 3rd Earl of Plymouth (1707–1732)
- 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, 11th 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
- George Grenville (1712 - 1770), First Lord of the Admiralty, 1762 - 1763, Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1763 - 1765
- Edward Cornwallis (1713 - 1776), Lieutenant-General and founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- 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
- Edward Weston (1703–1770), politician and Chief Secretary of Ireland
1720s
- 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
- Daniel Dulany the Younger (1722 - 1797), Maryland Loyalist politician, Mayor of Annapolis, and lawyer.
- 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
- 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, 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
1730s
- 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
- 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, and Viceroy of Ireland, 1798 - 1801
1740s
- Henry Jerome de Salis FRS (1740 - 1810), clergyman and antiquarian
- 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
- William Coxe (1747 - 1828), historian
- Sir Uvedale Price (1747 - 1829), author
- George Robert FitzGerald (c.1748 - 1786), Irish eccentric, charged with murder
- 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
1750s
- John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806)Army officer, founder of Toronto
- Lord George Gordon (1751 - 1793), politician and agitator
- Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753 - 1816), politician and scientist
- George Cranfield Berkeley (1753 - 1818), senior Royal Navy admiral
- Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753 - 1827), art patron
- Somerset Davies (1754–1817), politician
- 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, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1821 - 1828, 1833 - 1834
1760s
- 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
- Mad Jack Fuller (1757 - 1834), eccentric philanthropist, Member of Parliament for Southampton from 1780 to 1784, and Member of Parliament for Sussex from 1801 to 1812.
- 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
1770s
- John Keate (1773 - 1852), Headmaster of Eton, 1809 - 1834
- Edward Vernon Utterson (c. 1776 - 1856), lawyer, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, literary antiquary, collector and editor
- George 'Beau' Brummell (1778 - 1840), dandy
- John Rogers (1778 - 1856), theologian, landlord and scientist.
- John Broadhurst (1778-1861), British Member of Parliament
- 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
1780s
1790s
- Francis James Newman Rogers KC (1791 - 1851), judge and legal author
- 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
- Henry Michell Wagner (1792 - 1870), Vicar of Brighton (1824 - 1870)
- John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
- Major-General Sir George Cathcart (1794 - 1854) Governor of Cape Colony, 1852 - 1853
- Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794 - 1865), Clerk of the Privy 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, and Clerk of the Parliaments, 1855 - 1875
- Richard William Jelf (1798 - 1871), Principal of King's College London (1843–1868)
- 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 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
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