Eton Urban District Eton Urban District Eton Urban District was from 1894 to 1974 a local government district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England. In 1894 the urban district took over the responsibilities of the disbanded Eton Local Board District. Between 1900 and 1934 the Eton civil parish incorporated parts of the neighbouring parishes of Eton Wick, Boveney, and Upton cum Chalvey as the town and population of Eton expanded rapidly. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 Eton UD was disbanded and together with parts of Eton Rural District was transferred to Berkshire and combined with adjacent urban districts to
Eton College Robert Birley and Anthony Chenevix-Trench. M. R. James was a provost. In 1959, the College constructed a nuclear bunker to house the College's Provost and Fellows. The facility is now used for storage. In 2005, the School was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools found to have breached the Competition Act 1998 (see below under "Controversy"). In 2011, plans to attack Eton were found on the body of a senior al-Qaeda leader shot dead in Somalia. The school is headed by a Provost and Fellows (Board of Governors), who appoint the Head Master. It contains 25 boys'