This photograph shows the summer 1949 report card of fifteen-year-old Eton College student John Gurdon.

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And Eton College alone educated 330 leading people on the list - some 4% of the nation's elite.

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At Eton College, a wooden Jubilee pyramid was smashed by old boys.

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The BBC's June Kelly said the developments were likely to be "highly embarrassing" for Mr Cameron who attended Eton College with Mr Brooks and was a friend of both the racehorse trainer and his wife.

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The Kamuzu Academy was founded, a college based on Eton, at which British teachers inculcated Latin and Greek into favoured African children.

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His father was a well-to-do builder and architect who, when the family moved to Scotland, sent his son to Fettes College, the so-called Eton of Scotland which Tony Blair was later to attend.

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