Curated category
People educated at Eton College
- George OrwellGeorge Orwell did not exist on any birth certificate. The man behind the name was Eric Arthur Blair, born on the 25th of June 1903 in Motihari, in the Bengal…
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley was drowned in a storm off the Italian coast on the 8th of July 1822, age 29, before most of the world had ever read a word he wrote.
- David CameronDavid Cameron walked away from 10 Downing Street on the 13th of July 2016, humming a tune that a nearby microphone picked up.
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was born in Dublin in 1769 as the sixth of nine children, and died in 1852 holding the rank of Field Marshal and…
- James Wood (critic)James Douglas Graham Wood was born on the 1st of November 1965 in Durham, England, and by his mid-twenties he had made himself into one of the most…
- James Graham-CampbellJames Graham-Campbell entered the world on the 7th of February 1947. This date marks the beginning of a life that would eventually reshape our understanding…
- Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley died at 5:20 pm Pacific Standard Time on the 22nd of November 1963 - and almost nobody noticed. His death was overshadowed by the assassination…
- Henry Stephens SaltHenry Shakespear Stephens Salt was born on the 20th of September 1851 in Naini Tal, British India, and by the time he died at Brighton Municipal Hospital on…
- Robert BridgesRobert Seymour Bridges, born on the 23rd of October 1844, spent the first four decades of his adult life doing something that might seem strange for a man…
- George SteevensGeorge Steevens entered the world at Poplar on the 10th of May 1736. His father served as a captain and later became a director of the East India Company.
- Oliver Locker-LampsonOliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson was born on the 25th of September 1880 into a family of poets, diplomats, and naval heroes, and he spent the next seven…
- Humphrey GilbertHumphrey Gilbert died sitting in the stern of a tiny frigate, reading a book, as an Atlantic storm swallowed him whole. His crew on a nearby vessel heard him…
- A. J. AyerA. J. Ayer was 26 years old when he published a book that told most of philosophy to sit down and be quiet. Language, Truth, and Logic, which appeared in…
- John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge on the 5th of June 1883, the son of an economist father and a mother who would go on to become her town's second…
- Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron HollandHenry Richard Vassall-Fox entered the world at Winterslow House in Wiltshire on the 21st of November 1773. His father Stephen Fox, the 2nd Baron Holland…
- Nevile HendersonSir Nevile Meyrick Henderson was born at Sedgwick Park, near Horsham, Sussex on the 10th of June 1882. He grew up as the third child of Robert Henderson and…
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of WillingdonFreeman Freeman-Thomas entered the world on the 12th of September 1866 in England. His father, Freeman Frederick Thomas, served as an officer in the rifle…