List of Old Etonians Born in The 19th Century - 19th Century

19th Century

  • William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, (1801–1846)
  • Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
  • Sir John William Lubbock (1803–1865), Vice-Chancellor, University of London, 1837–1842, astronomer and mathematician
  • Field Marshal Lord William Paulet GCB (1804–1893), British Army officer
  • 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

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