Sir Frederick Alexis Eaton (20 January 1838[1] – 10 September 1913[2][3]) was a British writer and editor.
He was educated at King's College School,[4] and graduated from St Alban Hall, Oxford in 1860.
In 1873, he was appointed secretary of the Royal Academy with a salary of £500 per annum,[6] and remained in the post until his death (in Kensington, London).
Thomas Graham Jackson commented on Eaton's "gentlemanly tact and unfailing temper" when dealing with irascible artists, and noted that his "enormous experience in the business of the Academy for more than 40 years made his services invaluable".
[8][9] Eaton also edited an 1882 two-volume translation from the German of Moritz Thausing's Life and Works of Albrecht Dürer,[10][11] which received a favourable review in the New York Times,[12] and compiled a list of art in the possession of the Marylebone Cricket Club with Spencer Ponsonby-Fane.