List of Old Etonians Born in The 19th Century

1870s

Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore (1871–1962), Malakand Campaign Victoria Cross
Major-General Sir John Gough (1871–1915), Somaliland Campaign Victoria Cross
Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (1871–1950), Governor, Bank of England, 1920–1944
Sir Home Gordon (1871–1956), 12th Baronet Gordon of Embo, Sutherland, cricket writer and journalist
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
Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet (1872–1942), inventor of the Ross Rifle
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
Sir George Russell Clerk (1874–1951), British Ambassador to France, 1934–1937
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
Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley (1875–1931), MP for Eddisbury, 1906–1910, Governor of Victoria, 1914–1920, and Chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, 1925–1928
Sir Trevor Bigham (1876–1954), Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1914–1931, and Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1931–1935
Charles 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
Arnold Sandwith Ward (1876–1950) journalist, solicitor, MP
HRH Prince Aga Khan III (1877–1957), 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims
Bernard Bosanquet (1877–1936), cricketer
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
Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside (1879–1958), Speaker of the House of Commons, 1943–1951
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
Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm (1877–1939), Liberal MP for Rotherhithe, 1906–18 and assistant secretary to Henry Campbell-Bannerman