Old Etonians


I have just finished reading "The Guardsmen". The book is about Harold Macmillan and a group of his fellow Old Etonians, who dominated British political life from the end of WW2 to the early 1960s. They were referred to as the guardsmen because, as well as being at Eton together, they all served in the Brigade of Guards on the Western Front in WW1.

I remember a time when there were twelve Old Etonians in the Cabinet. Now we have an Old Etonian standing for leadership of the Conservative Party.


Which of the following attended Eton?

1. Hugh Laurie
2. Francis Bacon
3. Adam Hart-Davis
4. George Orwell
4. Beau Brummell
4. Aldous Huxley
6. John Maynard Keynes
7. Ranulph Fiennes
8. Patrick Macnee
9. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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