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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.