1850s
- Captain Hook (born 1850, estimated) fictional pirate captain in J.M.Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, Hook's last words were, "Floreat Etona"
- 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 Stephens Salt (1851–1939), writer, social reformer, socialist, animal rights campaigner, vegetarian, literary critic, and biographer.
- Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851–1942), literary historian
- Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (1852–1930), Secretary, Office of Works, 1895–1902, defence expert and writer
- William Ellison-Macartney (1852–1924), MP for South Antrim, 1885–1903, Governor of Tasmania, 1913–1917, Governor of Western Australia, 1917–1920
- Arthur Lyttelton (1852–1903), Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1882–1893
- Mark Hanbury Beaufoy, (1854–1922) Liberal member of parliament, author of 'Never, never, let your gun pointed be at anyone...'
- Sir Horace Plunkett (1854–1932), Irish politician and writer
- William Edwards (1855–1912), Sudan Campaign Victoria Cross
- James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (1855–1949), Conservative politician
- Edward Lyttelton (1855–1942), Headmaster of Haileybury School, 1890–1905, and Eton, 1905–1916, and writer, who made one appearance for England in 1878.
- St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (1856–1942), Secretary of State for War, 1900–1903, and Secretary of State for India, 1903–1905
- Herbert Edward Ryle (1856–1925), Old Testament scholar and Dean of Westminster.
- Alfred Lyttelton (1857–1913), Colonial Secretary, 1903–1905, and England footballer.
- 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
- Reginald Heber Macaulay (1858–1937), footballer who won the FA Cup with Old Etonians in 1882 and made one appearance for England in 1878.
- Harry Chester Goodhart (1858–1895), twice FA Cup winner and England international footballer, who went on to become Professor of Humanities at Edinburgh University.
- 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
- James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet, tutor to Prince Albert Victor Edward (Prince Eddy), Virginia Woolf's cousin, Barrister, suffered from bi-polar disorder, one of suspects as Jack the Ripper
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