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EDEN, HENLEY, second son of Robert Eden (qv); b. 8 Mar 1838; adm. 18 Oct 1851 (G); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Apr 1856; of Aberdalgie House, Perthshire; m. 15 Apr 1871 Amy Frances, younger dau. of Lord Charles Lennox Kerr; d. 21 Sep 1917.

EDEN, ROBERT ALLAN, fourth son of Robert Eden (qv); b. 27 Dec 1839; adm. 26 May 1853 (G); QS 1854; left 1858; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1858; BA 1863; MA 1865; ordained deacon 1869, priest 1871 (both Moray & Ross); Assistant Priest, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness 1869-71; Curate, St. Andrew’s, Wells Street, London 1871-80; Chaplain and Private Secretary to father 1880-6; again Assistant Priest, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness 1881-5; Canon Residentiary, Inverness 1885-7, Precentor 1886-7; Vicar of Old St. Pancras, London from 27 Jun 1887; d. unm. 29 Apr 1912.

EDEN, ROBERT, third son of Sir Frederick Morton Eden, Bart., writer on the state of the poor, and Anne, dau. of James Paul Smyth, London; b. 2 Sep 1804; adm. 15 Jul 1817 (Best's); Min. Can. 1818; KS 1819; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1823, adm. pens. 9 May 1823, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 May 1823; BA 1827; MA 1839; BD and DD 1851; ordained deacon and priest (Gloucester) 1828; Rector of Leigh, Essex 3 Mar 1837-52; Inspector of Schools, Essex 1841; consecrated Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness 9 Mar 1851; Primus of Scottish Episcopalian Church from 5 Jul 1862; founded St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness 1866; worked for the recognition of Scottish episcopalian orders by the Church of England; founder of the Representative Church Council, which replaced the Church Society founded by Dean Ramsay; JP Essex (still 1886, non-resident); m. 27 Sep 1827 Emma, third dau. of Sir James Allan Park, Kt, a Judge of the Common Pleas; d. 26 Aug 1886. DNB.

Eden, Sebastian Inigo, son of Peter Mary Gerard Eden PhD FSA, Roy. Commn. on Historical Monuments, and Hermia Madeleine, d. of Thomas Murray Sowerby, solicitor; b. 17 Mar. 1941; adm. Sept. 1954 (QS); left July 1959; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf, matric. 1959, BA 1962; a teacher; m.; d. 4 Apr. 2001.

EDES (or EEDES), RICHARD, of Sewell, Beds.; b.; adm.; QS in 1565; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1571, Westminster Student; BA 1574; MA 1578; BD 1584; DD 1589; Proctor 1583; ordained; Prebendary of Salisbury from 30 Jul 1584; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 10 Feb 1586; Prebendary of Hereford 17 Jan 1589/90, Treasurer from 22 Aug 1596; Dean of Worcester from 24 Jun 1597; Chaplain to Elizabeth I and James I; one of the translators of the Bible; reputed author of Julius Caesar, tragedy acted at Christ Church 1582; wrote English and Latin verses, and had reputation as a punster; m. Margaret, dau. of Right Rev. Herbert Westphaling DD, Bishop of Hereford; d. 19 Nov 1604. DNB.

EDES, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.

EDES, FRANCIS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, subscibed 18 Mar 1656/7, Westminster Student; BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662; MB and MD 1674; FRCP 16 Oct 1677; of St. Mary Woolnoth parish, London; d. 13 Sep 1683.

Edey, Anthony Russell, son of George Russell Edey LDS, of Bromley, Kent, and Audrey Vivian, d. of Alfred Blandford Hutchings of Edenbridge, Kent; b. 29 May 1913; adm. Jan. 1927 (B), (G) May 1927; left Apr. 1931; a stockbroker in Calcutta until 1940; Hodson's Horse, 31 Indian Armoured Divn, 1940-5 (Lieut.-Col. IA); military sec. to Lord Louis Mountbatten 1945-6; subsequently a stockbroker in Johannesburg; m. 6 Sept. 1941 Barbara Stephanie Anne, d. of Reginald Philip Rees-Jones of Machynlleth, Montgomery; d. 11 Oct. 1994.

EDGAR, ---; b.; in school lists 1785; left Whitsun 1785.

EDGAR, ALEXANDER, brother of John Foy Edgar (qv); bapt. 29 Aug 1768; adm. 15 Jan 1776; Commissary of Stores, Royal Engineers’ Department; d. St. Domingo, West Indies 22 Jun 1796, “aged 27 years” (M. I. St. Philip and St. Jacob, Bristol).