List of famous Old Etonians born in the 19th century
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The following famous old boys of Eton College were born in the 19th century.
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
- Sir John William Lubbock (1803–1865), Vice-Chancellor, University of London, 1837–1842, astronomer and mathematician
- James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807–1889), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1852, 1858–1859, and Lord Privy Seal, 1866–1868, 1874–1876
- Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898), poet
- William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (1808–1891), politician and benefactor of science and industry
- William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), President of the Board of Trade, 1843–1845, Colonial Secretary, 1845–1846, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1852–1855, 1859–1866, and Prime Minister, 1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894
- Alexander Kinglake (1809–1891), military historian
- George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878), Bishop of New Zealand, 1841–1867, and Lichfield, 1868–1878
- George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris (1810–1872), Governor of Madras, 1854–1859
- Arthur Henry Hallam (1811–1833), poet
- Charles Kean (c.1811–1868), actor
- General Sir Arthur Borton (1814–1893), Governor of Malta, 1878–1884
- Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Baron Kinnaird (1814–1887), banker, politician and philanthropist
- Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847–1923), footballer and president of the Football Association 1890–1923
- Sir John Lawes (1814–1899), agriculturist
- Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (1816–1905), Chancellor and Vicar-General of the Province of York, 1877–1900, and clock designer
- Henry Woodyer (1816–1896)
- George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton of Frankley (1817–1876), politician and co-founder of Canterbury, New Zealand
- General Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (1817–1877), Crimean War Victoria Cross
- John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894), Attorney General, 1871–1873, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, 1873–1880, and Lord Chief Justice, 1880–1894
- Edward Thring (1821–1887), Headmaster of Uppingham School, 1853–1887
- John Campbell of Islay (1822–1885), Gaelic scholar
- William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), poet
- William Spottiswoode (1825–1883), President of the Royal Society, 1878–1883, mathematician and physicist
- Sir Charles Russell (1826–1883), Crimean War Victoria Cross and politician
- Coleridge Patteson (1827–1871), Bishop of Melanesia, 1861–1871, and martyr
- Sir Charles Fraser (1829–1895), Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross
- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), Secretary of State for India, 1866–1867, 1874–1878, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1878–1880, 1885–1886, 1887–1892, 1895–1900, and Prime Minister, 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1902
- James Payn (1830–1898), novelist, poet, editor and journalist
- Clement Walker Heneage (1831–1901), Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross
- George Fosbery (1832–1907), Umbeyla Expedition Victoria Cross and firearms expert
- Gerald Goodlake (1832–1890), Crimean War Victoria Cross
- Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage (1832–1901), Crimean War Victoria Cross and politician
- Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832–1914), Commander-in-Chief, Madras, 1881–1885, India, 1885–1893, Ireland, 1895–1899, and South Africa, 1899–1900, Commander-in-Chief, 1901–1904, and Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross
- Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), Editor, Dictionary of National Biography, 1882–1891, and writer
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913), Vice-Chancellor, University of London, 1872–1880, Chairman, London County Council, 1890–1892, banker, scientist, archaeologist and author
- Oscar Browning (1837–1923), historian
- Algernon Swinburne (1837–1909), poet
- General Sir Redvers Buller (1839–1908), Adjutant General, 1890–1897, General Officer Commanding Natal, 1899–1900, and I Corps, 1901–1906, and Zulu War Victoria Cross
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge, 1879–1884, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Institution, 1887–1905, Secretary to the Royal Society, 1887–1896, and Nobel Laureate
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson (1842–1921), Third Sea Lord, 1897–1901, Flag Officer Commanding Channel Squadron, 1901–1908, and Home Fleet, 1903–1907, First Sea Lord, 1909–1912, and Sudan Campaign Victoria Cross
- Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge (1843–1911), oarsman, cyclist, runner and sculptor
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate, 1913–1930
- Quintin Hogg (1845–1903), sugar merchant, philanthropist and Scotland footballer
- General Sir Neville Lyttelton (1845–1931), Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, 1902–1904, Chief of the General Staff, 1904–1908, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Ireland, 1908–1912, and Governor, Royal Hospital Chelsea, 1912–1931
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927), Governor-General of Canada, 1883–1888, Viceroy of India, 1888–1893, Secretary of State for War, 1895–1900, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1900–1905
- Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937), Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, 1883–1903
- Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846–1935), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1908–1909, and writer
- Lord William Beresford (1847–1900), Zulu War Victoria Cross
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1892–1894, and Prime Minister, 1894–1895
- Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848–1930), Prime Minister, 1902–1905, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1915–1916, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1916–1919
- Digby Mackworth-Dolben (1848–1867)
- Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte (1848–1940), Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 1886–1926, and historian
- Sir Hubert Parry (1848–1918), Director, Royal College of Music, 1895–1918, Professor of Music, University of Oxford, 1899–1908, and composer
- Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1894), Secretary of State for India, 1885–1886, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1886–1887
- Sir Joseph Dimsdale (1849–1912), Lord Mayor of London, 1901–1902, and politician
- Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge, 1888–1906
- George Harris, 4th Baron Harris (1851–1932), Governor of Bombay, 1890–1895, and England cricketer
- Sir John Murray (1851–1928), publisher
- Henry Salt (1851–1939), writer and social reformer
- Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (1852–1930), Secretary, Office of Works, 1895–1902, defence expert and writer
- Arthur Lyttelton (1852–1903), Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1882–1893
- James Leigh Joynes (1853–1893)
- Sir Horace Plunkett (1854–1932), Irish politician and writer
- William Edwards (1855–1912), Sudan Campaign Victoria Cross
- Edward Lyttelton (1855–1942), Headmaster of Haileybury School, 1890–1905, and Eton, 1905–1916, and writer
- Alfred Lyttelton (1857–1913), Colonial Secretary, 1903–1905, and tennis player
- Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857–1932), Quartermaster General, 1904–1905, General Officer Commanding Northern Command, 1911–1914, II Corps, 1914–1915, Second Army, 1915–1917, 1918, Italian Expeditionary Force, 1917–1918, and British Army of the Rhine, 1918–1919, Governor of Malta, 1919–1924, and High Commissioner for Palestine, 1925–1928
- Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858–1923), actor-manager
- Sir Henry Miers (1858–1942), Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy, University of Oxford, 1895–1908, Principal, University of London, 1908–1915, and Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University of Manchester, 1915–1926
- Sir Kynaston Studd (1858–1944), Lord Mayor of London, 1928–1929, and philanthropist
- George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), Viceroy of India, 1899–1905, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1919–1924
- Sir Lionel Cust (1859–1929), Director, National Portrait Gallery, 1895–1909, and Surveyor of the King's Pictures, 1901–1927
- Sir Cecil Spring-Rice (1859–1918), Minister to Persia, 1906–1908, and Sweden, 1908–1912, and ambassador to the United States, 1912–1918
- Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton (1860–1938), Yorkshire cricketer
- William Inge (1860–1954), Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 1907–1911, and Dean of St Paul's, 1911–1934
- Gilbert Bourne (1861–1933), Linacre Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford, 1906–1921, and oarsman
- A. C. Benson (1862–1925), Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1915–1925, and writer
- Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham (1862–1933), Managing Proprietor, The Daily Telegraph, 1903–1928, and politician
- Field Marshal Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862–1935), General Officer Commanding Egypt, 1912–1914, Cavalry Corps, 1915, IX Corps, 1915–1916, XVII Corps, 1916, Canadian Corps, 1916–1917, and Third Army, 1917–1919, Governor-General of Canada, 1921–1926, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1928–1931
- M. R. James (1862–1936), author, antiquary, Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 1894–1908, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge, 1913–1915, and Provost of Eton, 1918–1936
- Arthur Bourchier (1864–1927), actor-manager
- Charles FitzClarence (1865–1914), Boer War Victoria Cross
- George Murray (1865–1939), Heath Professor of Comparative Pathology, University of Durham, 1893–1908, and Professor of Systematic Medicine, Victoria University of Manchester, 1908–1925
- John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1866–1929), automobile enthusiast and expert
- Sidney Evans (1866–1949)
- Guy Nickalls (1866–1935), Olympic oarsman
- Sir Wasey Sterry (1866–1955), Chief Justice of Sudan, 1903–1917, Legal Secretary of Sudan, 1917–1926, and Judge of the Supreme Court for Egypt, 1928–1938
- Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe (1867–1958), Governor-General of New Zealand, 1930–1935, politician and agriculturist
- Arthur Clutton-Brock (1868–1924), essayist, critic and journalist
- Eric Parker (1870–1955), naturalist, author and journalist
- Alexander Murray Fincastle, 8th Earl of Dunmore (1871–1962), Malakand Campaign Victoria Cross
- Brigadier General John Gough (1871–1915), Somaliland Campaign Victoria Cross
- Norman Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu (1871–1950), Governor, Bank of England, 1920–1944
- Richard Austen-Leigh (1872–1961), writer and printing expert
- Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham (1872–1950), Attorney General, 1922–1924, 1924–1928, Lord Chancellor, 1928–1929, 1935–1938, and Secretary of State for War, 1931–1935
- Brigadier General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1872–1955), Governor of South Australia, 1928–1934, and New South Wales, 1935–1936, Governor-General of Australia, 1936–1944, and Sudan Campaign Victoria Cross
- Frederick Roberts (1872–1899), Boer War Victoria Cross
- Maurice Baring (1874–1945), poet, writer and journalist
- Major General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957), Governor-General of South Africa, 1923–1931, and Canada, 1940–1946
- Geoffrey Dawson (1874–1944), Editor, The Times, 1912–1919, 1923–1941
- Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore (1875–1948), Chairman of Committees, House of Lords, 1911–1931
- Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (1875–1947), Professor of Physics, Imperial College, London, 1908–1919
- Charles Desborough Burnell (1876–1969), oarsman
- Brigadier General John Campbell (1876–1944), First World War Victoria Cross
- Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golfer and sportswriter
- Edward Dent (1876–1957), Professor of Music, University of Cambridge, 1926–1941, and musicologist
- Sir Harcourt Gold (1876–1952), oarsman
- Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), literary critic and writer
- Roger Quilter (1877–1953), composer
- Charles Rolls (1877–1910), Managing Director, Rolls-Royce, 1906–1910, engineer, aviator, cyclist, racing driver, land speed record holder and first British air accident fatality
- George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877–1955), Chairman, BBC, 1927–1930, Governor-General of South Africa, 1931–1937, and Lord Chamberlain, 1938–1952
- Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957), writer
- Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879–1953), industrialist, horticulturalist and politician
- Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879–1952), Proprietor, The Observer, 1911–1945, Lord Mayor of Plymouth, 1939–1944, and politician
- Sir Gerald Kelly (1879–1972), portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy, 1949–1954
- George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd (1879–1941), Governor of Bombay, 1918–1923, High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1925–1929, and Colonial Secretary, 1940–1941
- George Boyd-Rochfort (1880–1940), First World War Victoria Cross
- Francis Grenfell (1880–1915), First World War Victoria Cross
- Lawrence Oates (1880–1912), Antarctic explorer
- Brigadier General Lewis Evans (1881–1962), First World War Victoria Cross
- Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart (1881–1957), Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1928–1930, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1930–1938, and Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary, 1938–1941
- Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson (1881–1964), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Egypt, 1939–1941, Cyrenaica, 1941, and British Troops in Greece, 1941, General Officer Commanding British Forces in Palestine and Transjordan, 1941, Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in Syria, 1941, and Persia and Iraq, 1942–1943, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Ninth Army, and Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, 1943–1945, and Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean, 1944–1945
- Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881–1959), President of the Board of Education, 1922–1924, 1932–1935, Minister of Agriculture, 1924–1925, Viceroy of India, 1926–1931, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1938–1940, and Ambassador to the United States, 1941–1946
- John Christie (1882–1962), founder of Glyndebourne
- Peter Haig-Thomas (1882–1959)
- Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974), racehorse owner and breeder
- Christopher Stone (1882–1965), disc jockey
- HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883–1938), Governor-General of South Africa, 1920–1923
- Arthur Borton (1883–1933), First World War Victoria Cross
- Charles Bury (1883–1963)
- John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes (1883–1946), economist
- George Lyttelton (1883–1962)
- Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (1883–1950), composer, artist and author
- Arthur Villiers (1883–1969), philanthropist
- Sir Alexander Cadogan (1884–1968), Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1938–1946, and Chairman, BBC, 1952–1957
- Alfred Dillwyn Knox (1884–1943), cryptographer
- Sir John Murray (1884–1967)
- George Butterworth (1885–1916), composer
- Sir Lawrence Jones (1885–1969)
- Sir Shane Leslie (1885–1971)
- John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever (1886–1971), Proprietor, The Times, 1922–1966, and politician
- Geoffrey Drummond (1886–1941), First World War Victoria Cross
- Sir Alfred Egerton (1886–1959), Professor of Chemical Technology, Imperial College, London, 1936–1952
- Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort (1887–1983), racehorse trainer
- Hugh Dalton, Baron Dalton (1887–1962), President of the Board of Trade, 1942–1945, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1945–1947
- Denys Finch-Hatton (1887–1931), big game hunter and aviator
- Sir Julian Huxley (1887–1975), Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution, 1927–1931, and Director-General, UNESCO, 1946–1948
- Henry Moseley (1887–1915), physicist
- Henry Wade (1887–1969)
- Robert Croft Bourne (1888–1938), oarsman and politician
- Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), soldier poet
- Ronald Knox (1888–1957), Roman Catholic priest, crime writer and translator of the Bible
- Sir Thomas Ralph Merton (1888–1969), scientist
- Patrick Shaw-Stewart (1888–1917)
- Neville Elliott-Cooper (1889–1918), First World War Victoria Cross
- Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (1889–1972)
- Major General Edward Lawson, 4th Baron Burnham (1890–1963), General Manager, The Daily Telegraph, 1927–1939, 1945–1961, and soldier
- Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890–1954), Secretary of State for War, 1935–1937, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1937–1938, Minister of Information, 1940–1941, and Ambassador to France, 1944–1947
- Percy Hansen (1890–1951), First World War Victoria Cross
- Arthur Batten-Pooll (1891–1971), First World War Victoria Cross
- William Congreve (1891–1916), First World War Victoria Cross
- Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges (1892–1969), Cabinet Secretary, 1938–1945, and Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, 1945–1956
- Sir John Graham (1892–1980), First World War Victoria Cross
- John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1964), Professor of Genetics and of Biometry, University College, London, 1933–1957
- Thomas Lowinsky (1892–1947)
- Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer
- HM King Prajadhipok (1893–1941), King of Siam, 1925–1935
- Oliver Lyttleton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893–1972), Colonial Secretary, 1951–1954
- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist
- Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894–1986), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1955–1957, and Prime Minister, 1957–1963
- Peter Warlock (1894–1930), composer and writer on music
- Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan (1895–1977), Chief Scout of the Commonwealth, 1945–1959, and Governor of Tasmania, 1959–1963
- John Dunville (1896–1917), First World War Victoria Cross
- Sir Henry Segrave (1896–1930), engineer, racing driver, aviator and holder of land speed record
- Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1935–1938, 1940–1945, 1951–1955, and Prime Minister, 1955–1957
- Julian Royds Gribble (1897–1918), First World War Victoria Cross
- Peter Llewelyn Davies (1897–1960)
- Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988)
- John Cobb (1899–1952), racing driver and holder of land speed record
- Christopher Hussey (1899–1970), architectural historian and writer
- HRH Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974)
- John Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe (1900–1994)
- Michael Mason (1900–1982)
- Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1900–1989)