Eton College

She was born into the English professional class and was presumably white; her father was educated at Eton and at Queen's College, Cambridge . During the early years of her childhood her family was well...

Although her step-brother Bernard went to Eton , Frances Cornford received her education at home, and sometimes shared classes with her nearby cousins, one of whom was Gwen Darwin , later Raverat. Frances's...

AH 's first school was Prior's Field (founded by his mother as a progressive institution for girls), where his presence was a tolerated anomaly. With a cousin, he then attended a boys' preparatory boarding school...

As a schoolboy at EtonPBS opposed the system of fagging (allotting junior boys virtually as private slaves to wait on older ones). He was expelled by University College, Oxford (which later set up a...

HF attended Eton , and four years after leaving school enrolled for a while at the University of Leiden . After the premature end of his career as a theatre manager he enrolled as a...

Brought back to England at the age of three, Eric Blair (later GO ) was enabled by a scholarship and contributions from relations to go to St Cyprian's, a well-known but oppressive boys' preparatory school...

Later she became interested in Plato . In 1886 she was one of a group of women who began Greek classes at the Hampstead home of poet and scholar William Cory , her longtime friend...

ACS began his studies at Eton .

He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the...

MCH 's brother John Heneage Jesse ended his time at Eton when he became involved in pranks which forced him to escape on board a yacht to Norway. Employed for many years in the...

JS 's father, Oliver Strachey , was the sixth son of Sir Richard and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey . He attended Eton , then Balliol College, Oxford ; the family home was in London...

MS 's son George Savage was born on 18 July 1750 and educated at Eton . He went on to King's College, Cambridge, was ordained and held posts successively as chaplain to a member of...

EA gave birth, resentfully, to her son, Henning Bernd (H. B.), in England on 27 October 1902. Growing up in England and attending Eton during the First World War, he displayed a kind of heroism...

MAD 's father, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens , was the eldest child of the famous author after whom he was named. He distinguished himself as a student at Eton College , but his father suspected...

NM 's only brother, Tom, went to Eton , while any education sisters acquired was imparted at home. During the second world war he was with the British army in Burma (now Myanmar), where he died.