Founded in 1440 by King Kenry VI, Eton College is the world’s most famous school. Its old boys include British prime ministers from Walpole and Pitt to MacMillan, Douglas-Hume and David Cameron; writers from Grey, Shelley, Fielding to Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Keynes, Sitwell, and Robert Bridges; explorers such as Captain Oates and Ranulph Fiennes; scientists like Boyle, Herschel, and Banks.