List of Old Etonians Born in The 18th Century - 1790s

1790s

  • Francis James Newman Rogers KC (1791–1851), judge and legal author
  • 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
  • Major-General Sir George Cathcart (1794–1854) Governor of Cape Colony, 1852–1853
  • Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865), Clerk to the Council, 1821–1859
  • Rees Howell Gronow (1794–1865), Welsh Grenadier Guards officer and memoirist
  • Samuel Jones-Loyd, Baron Overstone (1796–1883), Banker and politician
  • Joseph Henry Blake (1797–1849), Irish peer and socialist
  • Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre (1797–1879), Vice-Chancellor, University of London, 1842–1862, and Clerk of the Parliaments, 1855–1875
  • Richard William Jelf (1798–1871), Principal of King's College London (1843–1868)
  • 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 Smith-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
  • John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton (1799–1880) Politician

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