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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 , 1763–1765Frederick 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 , 1791–1826John 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, 1806Thomas 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 , 1792–1808Richard 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 , 1827John Keate (1773–1852), Headmaster of Eton , 1809–1834George '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 , 1848–1862Stratford 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, 1821–1859Sir 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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