Eton College receiving financial assistance from the school continues to increase. Eton College was founded by King Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to 70 poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same King in 1441. Henry took Winchester College as his model, visiting on many occasions, borrowing its Statutes and removing its Headmaster and some of the Scholars to start his new school. When Henry VI founded the school, he granted it a large number of endowments, including much valuable land. The group of feoffees appointed by the king to
Eton, Georgia Eton, Georgia Eton is a town in Murray County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Dalton, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 319 at the 2000 census. A post office called Eton has been in operation since 1906. The community's name most likely is a transfer from Eton College, in England. Eton is located at (34.822554, -84.761826). According to the United States Census Bureau, Eton has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 319 people, 123 households, and 93 families residing in the town. The population density was 762.1