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The 1919 Eclipse Expedition to test the light-bending prediction of GeneralRelativity remains one of the most famous physics experiments of the 20thcentury. However, in recent decades it has been increasingly often alleged thatthe data-analysis of the expedition's leaders was faulty and biased in favor ofEinstein's theory. Arthur Stanley Eddington is particularly alleged to havebeen prejudiced in favor of general relativity. Specifically it is claimed thatsome of the data, which would have favored the so-called Newtonian prediction,was thrown out on dubious grounds. This paper argues that a close examinationof the views of the expedition's organizers, and of their data analysis,suggests that they had good grounds for acting as they did, and that the keypeople involved, in particular the astronomer Frank Watson Dyson, were notbiased in favor of Einstein. It also draws attention to a modern re-analysis ofthe most important eclipse plates which, though overlooked until now, tends tostrongly support the thesis of this paper.

Not Only Because of Theory: Dyson, Eddington and the Competing Myths of the 1919 Eclipse Expedition