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Governing Body

The Governing Body of Eton College is known as ‘The Provost and Fellows’. It consists of a Provost (appointed by the Crown), a Vice-Provost, and ten other Fellows.

Statute VI of the College provides that the Fellows shall be as follows:

  • The Provost of King’s College Cambridge [Senior Fellow] (a)
  • One Fellow to be elected by the Hebdomadal Council of Oxford University (b)
  • One Fellow to be elected by the Council of the Senate of Cambridge University (c)
  • One Fellow to be elected by the Council of the Royal Society (d)
  • One Fellow to be nominated by the Lord Chief Justice of England for the time being (e)
  • One Fellow to be elected by the Head Master, Lower Master, and Assistant Masters (f)
  • Four members to be elected by the Provost and Fellows themselves (g)

The Present Governing Body

Provost: The Rt Hon Lord WALDEGRAVE of North Hill, PC, MA (2009)
Vice-Provost: Dr Andrew GAILEY, CVO, MA, PhD (2006)
Fellows: Professor Ross HARRISON, MA, PhD (2006) (a)
  Sir Dominic CADBURY, MA, MBA (1996) (c)
  Mr David VEREY, CBE, MA (1997) (g)
  Mr Michael PROUDFOOT, MA (2001) (f)
  Professor Christopher DOBSON, MA, DPhil, FRS (2001) (d)
  Sir Michael PEAT, KCVO, FCA (2002) (g)
  Sir Michael BURTON, MA (2004) (e)
  Marchioness of DOURO, BA (2008) (g)
  Mr David REID SCOTT, MA (2008) (g)
  Professor Kim NASMYTH, PhD, FRS (2009) (b)

The Statutes provide that the Lord Bishop of Lincoln for the time being shall be the Visitor of Eton College. The Visitor is:

  The Right Reverend Dr John SAXBEE, PhD (2001)

Honorary Fellows may be elected. There are presently six:

  Mr John BUTTERWICK, TD (1996)
  Sir David MONEY-COUTTS, KCVO, MA (1996)
  Mr Nicholas KESSLER (2003) 
  Mr Simon ROBERTSON (2008)
  Sir Eric ANDERSON, KT, MA, MLitt, DLitt, FRSE (2009)
  Lady SMITH, OBE (2009)

 

The day-to-day management of the College is delegated by the Provost and Fellows to:

 

Head Master:  Mr Anthony LITTLE, MA (2002)
Lower Master: Dr Robert STEPHENSON, BSc, PhD (2003)
Bursar: Mr Andrew WYNN, LVO, MA (1998)
Director of Finance: Mr Hugh RICHARDSON, MA, FCA (2005)
   
   
   

The Statutes of the College can be downloaded here. Please click here if you need to download Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader first.