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Eton College ( EE-tən) is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England. It is noted for having educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, having been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". The school is the largest boarding school in England ahead of Millfield and Oundle. Eton charges up to £52,749 per year (£17,583 per term, with three terms per academic year, for 2023/24). Eton was noted as being the sixth most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK in 2013–14. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore, making it the 18th-oldest school in the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). Originally intended as a sister institution to King's College, Cambridge, Eton is known for its history, wealth, and notable alumni, known as Old Etonians. Eton is one of four public schools, along with Harrow (1572), Sherborne (705) and Radley (1847), to have retained the boys-only, boarding-only tradition, which means that its boys live at the school seven days a week during term time. The remainder of them, including Charterhouse in 1971, Westminster in 1973, Rugby in 1976, Shrewsbury in 2015, and Winchester in 2022, have since become co-educational. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
Douglas Hogg
Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
Alexander William Kinglake
Thomas Grenville
Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
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Jeremy Thorpe
John Strachey
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John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley
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Lord Charles Wellesley
Arthur Peel
Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood
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George Peabody Gooch
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury
Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher
Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet
John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury
Francis Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey
George Ward Hunt
Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory
Airey Neave
John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
Henry Labouchère
Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
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