List of Old Etonians Born in The 18th Century - 1750s

1750s

  • Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), politician and agitator
  • Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753–1816), politician and scientist
  • George Cranfield Berkeley (1753–1818), senior Royal Navy admiral
  • Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753–1827), art patron
  • General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore (1757–1832), Commander-in-Chief, Egypt, 1801
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Enys (1757–1818), soldier
  • 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, 1792–1808
  • Richard 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

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