For the cocktail, see Old Etonian (cocktail).

Past students of Eton College are Old Etonians. In recent years, the school has become popular with the British Royal Family; Princes William and Harry are Old Etonians. Eton has also produced eighteen British Prime Ministers, including William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Walpole and the first Duke of Wellington. A rising number of students come to Eton from overseas, including members of royal families from Africa and Asia, some of whom have been sending their sons to Eton for generations. One of them, King Prajadhipok or Rama VII (1893 - 1941) of Siam, donated a garden to Eton. [28] Famous actors that attended Eton include Hugh Laurie. Many fictional characters have been described as Old Etonians. These include Bertie Wooster and Ronald Eustace Psmith from the books by P. G. Wodehouse, the pirate who used the pseudonym Captain Hook, the detective Lord Peter Wimsey, the secret agent James Bond, the game shot George Hysteron-Proteron, and Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited.

The mediaevalist and ghost story writer M. R. James was provost of Eton from 1918 until his death in 1936.

Partially filmed at Eton

Here follows a list of films partially filmed at Eton.[29]

In popular culture

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  • In the Young Bond series, James Bond as a boy attends Eton College in the whole series of books.
  • Ronald Eustace Psmith, a fictional character in a series of novels by P. G. Wodehouse, was expelled from Eton and sent to a school called Sedleigh after being caught sneaking out of his bedroom window to go hunting cats with a saloon pistol.
  • In the Harry Potter series, Justin Finch-Fletchley was going to go to Eton College. However, he was sent to Hogwarts after his family found out he was a wizard.
  • In Anthony Horowitz's book Point Blanc, the teenage spy Alex Rider pretends to have been expelled from Eton in order to gain access to the Point Blanc Academy.
  • In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "William Wilson," the main character attended Eton College in his youth.
  • Early punk group The Jam have a song entitled "The Eton Rifles."
  • In Aldous Huxley's dystopia Brave New World the main characters visit a school named Eton that is 'reserved exclusively for upper-caste boys and girls.'
  • Scenes from The Madness of King George were filmed in School Yard, Lower School and College Chapel.
  • The wedding scene in Shakespeare in Love was filmed at the school's College Chapel.
  • In the U.S. sitcom The Nanny, playwright Maxwell Sheffield attended Eton.
  • In the film Bridget Jones' Diary, the main character refers to Eton as "a fascist institution where they shove a poker up your arse that you're not allowed to remove for the rest of your life.".
  • The father of James Bond, the fictional British agent, had him entered at Eton immediately upon his birth, but when the time came he was obliged to be withdrawn after only two halves, because of becoming involved with one of the maids.
  • In US TV Show NCIS, David McCallum's character, Forensic Pathologist "Ducky" Mallard is supposed to be an Old Etonian.
  • The race at the beginning of the film Chariots of Fire was filmed in the Eton School Yard.[30]
  • The buildings of Eton are popular subjects for photographers.[31]
  • The tag "where ignorance is bliss, ’Tis folly to be wise" is a quotation from Thomas Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. It also includes the lines "Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play".[32]
  • In the U.S. TV show The West Wing the Interim Deputy Director of Communications Will Bailey notes that he was an Eton valedictorian. Although actually the concept of valedictorian does not exist within Eton, being an almost exclusively American title.
  • The 1942 film A Yank at Eton portrays a fish-out-of-water American attending the school, but it was not filmed on location.
  • In The Constant Gardener, the main character, Justin Quayle, is many times referred to as "the true Etonian"
  • In To Catch A Prince, Lazlo is always talking about he is close friends with Prince William at Eton.
  • The protagonist of Elizabeth George's crime novels, DI Thomas Lynley, attended Eton.

Bibliography

  • Parker, Eric, Playing Fields: School Days at Eton (London, Philip Allan, 1922)
  • McConnell, J. D. R., Eton - How It Works (London, Faber and Faber, 1967)
  • Card, Tim, Eton Established: A History From 1440 to 1860 (London, John Murray, 2001, ISBN 0-7195-6052-7)
  • Fraser, Nick, The Importance of Being Eton (London, Short Books, June 2006)

See also

References

  1. ^ Eton - the establishment's choice in BBC News, September 2, 1998
  2. ^ "Eton waits for verdict in Harry 'cheating' case in The Observer". Retrieved on 2005-07-26.
  3. ^ a b What is it like at Eton College? at bbc.co.uk (accessed 22 October 2007)
  4. ^ http://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/eton-college.html
  5. ^ Shaw Hardwick
  6. ^ Eton College Site Visit Report, 28 October 2000 at subbrit.org.uk (accessed 22 October 2007)
  7. ^ Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees - Times Online
  8. ^ The Office of Fair Trading: OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement
  9. ^ The Eton Suit
  10. ^ A New Kind of Elite by J.F.O. McAllister at time.com, 18 June 2006 (accessed 22 October 2007)
  11. ^ Hilton College Notes
  12. ^ Ian McKellen's Website - Notes on the Eton visit
  13. ^ Eton College Society Timetable
  14. ^ Eton College Society roundup
  15. ^ Cameron defiant over drug claims BBC News article dated 11 February 2007 at bbc.co.uk (accessed 22 October 2007)
  16. ^ Welcome to Dorney Lake at dorneylake.com (accessed 22 October 2007)
  17. ^ Fowler's match, 1910 at cricinfo.com
  18. ^ Eton & Harrow match scorecard 1910 at cricinfo.com
  19. ^ "Cutting Edge" A Boy Called Alex (2008)
  20. ^ Cutting Edge from Channel4.com
  21. ^ Cutting Edge: A Boy Called Alex | Free Video Clips from Channel 4
  22. ^ Beside Windsor - Time Magazine 2008-01-09 Retrieved 2008-01-09
  23. ^ Charities Act 1993, Schedule 2
  24. ^ Ranked by total annual income averaged over three years. Source: "Charity 100 Index". Charity Finance. April 2008. ISSN 0963-0295. 
  25. ^ Eton College FAQ Fees for 2008–2009 academic year at etoncollege.com (not including "extras")
  26. ^ Top 50 independent schools found guilty of price-fixing by Matthew Taylor, Rob Evans and Rebecca Smithers in The Guardian, 10 November 2005
  27. ^ Brent-Eton Summer School at brent.gov.uk (accessed 22 October 2007)
  28. ^ http://www.rspg-burladingen.bl.schule-bw.de/PG/England2000/EtonCard.htm "King of Siam's Garden"
  29. ^ Titles with locations including Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England, UK
  30. ^ Locations Matching "Eton" at wheredidtheyfilmthat.co.uk (accessed 22 October 2007)
  31. ^ Flickr images tagged Eton College at flickr.com (accessed 22 October 2007)
  32. ^ Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College at poetsgraves.co.uk (accessed 22 October 2007)

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