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.

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, 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.

EDDIS, EDWARD UPTON, third son of William Upton Eddis, Purnea, Bengal, India, indigo planter, and Mary Adamson (IGI); b. 13 Mar 1861; adm. 26 Sep 1872 (James'); exhibitioner 1874; QS 1875; victor in the last “mill” on Green (Elizabethan xix, 66); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1879, matr. 10 Oct 1879; BA 1883; adm. Inner Temple 22 Nov 1880, called to bar 25 Jun 1884; practised at Calcutta and subsequently at Rangoon; returned to England 1909; m. 4 Feb 1891 Ela Usher, dau. of Robert Binning, Dowanhill, Glasgow; d. 14 Aug 1928.

EDDIS, BASIL UPTON, son of Arthur Shelly Eddis QC, Weymouth Street, London, County Court Judge, and Elizabeth Mary, fourth dau. of Job Wright, Cheshunt, Herts.; b. 4 Apr 1850; at Highgate Sch. Sep 1860 - Dec 1863; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (James'); QS 1865; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1869 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 12 May 1869, matr. Mich. 1869; BA 1873; adm. solicitor Mar 1876; Registrar, Clerkenwell County Court; of St. John’s Lodge, Newbury, Berks.; m. 8 Apr 1896 Margaret Anna, youngest dau. of Rev. Richard Cockburn Kindersley, Vicar of Brampford Speke, Devon; d. 23 Nov 1936.

ECKERSALL, JOHN, son of George Eckersall (adm. 1723, qv); b. 14 Sep 1748; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1761; Garrick was so pleased with Eckersall’s Davus in the Andria of 1765 “that he made him a present of the freedom of his house” (see Anthony Wilson’s letter printed Lusus Alt. Westm. , 1st series, 102, note); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Scholar 24 Dec 1766 - void by marriage 15 Dec 1774; BA 1770; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Nov 1767; travelling in Italy with Hon. John Trevor (qv) 1773; m. 1 Dec 1774 his cousin Catherine, sister of George Wathen (qv); d. 2 Dec 1837.

ECKERSALL, GEORGE, son of John Eckersall (qv); b. 9 Oct 1782; adm. 29 Feb 1792; in school list 1795; KS 1797; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. 18 Nov 1801; Ensign, 4th Foot 26 May 1803; Lieut., Feb 1804; retd. 9 Feb 1805; m. 29 Feb 1820 Sarah Caroline Grace; d. 16 Jul 1849.

Eccles, Brian, son of William Hunter Eccles, Sierra Leone Civil Service, of Kennett, Cambs, and Beatrice Ethel, d. of Dudley Oliver Sutton of Sutton Coldfield, Warks; b. 27 Jan. 1928; adm. Sept. 1941 (KS); left July 1946; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1953; HM Colonial Service Zanzibar 1952-7; DO Tanganyika 1957-61; dir. Brit. Information Services Zanzibar 1961-4; FCO, 1st Sec. Sierra Leone 1964-5, Lond. 1965-7; CUP representative West Africa 1967-75; gen. sec. South Regional Assn. for the Blind 1976-92; latterly resident in France; m. 1979 Joset Lin; d. 23 Jan. 2001.

EATON, NATHANIEL, son of Rev. Richard Eaton BD, Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1629, adm. scholar 1630, matr. Lent 1629/30; obtained a licence to pass to Leyden 1 Oct 1632, aged 22; in 1633 a pupil of the puritan divine Rev. William Ames DD at Franeker, Netherlands; ordained; emigrated with his two elder brothers to North America; President-designate, Harvard College 1638/9, but was “fitter to be a master of a Bridewel than a college” (Cotton Mather), and was dismissed by court order for cudgelling an usher, 9 Sep 1639; absconded to England; PhD and MD Padua 1647; ordained; Vicar of Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire 1661; Rector of Bideford, Devon, 18 Mar 1668; author, De Fastis Anglicis, sive Calendarium Sacrum, 1661; m. twice, one of his wives being a daughter of Thomas Graves, Virginia [another the widow of Rev. William Cotton ?]; d. 1674, when a prisoner for debt in the King’s Bench Prison, Southwark. DNB.

EASTLAKE, CHARLES LOCKE, fourth son of George Eastlake, Plymouth, Devon, Admiralty Law Agent and Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet; nephew of Sir Charles Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy, painter and art historian; b. 11 Mar 1833; adm. 1 Oct 1846 (Rigaud's); QS 1848; left 1850; pupil of Philip Hardwick RA, architect; Royal Academy Schools, silver medal for architectural drawings 1854; successively Assistant Secretary and Secretary, Royal Institute of British Architects 1866-78; FRIBA 19 Apr 1869; Keeper and Secretary, National Gallery 1878-98; a Governor of the School from 1882; author, Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, 1868, A History of the Gothic Revival in England, 1870, and other works; m. 1 Oct 1856 Eliza, youngest dau. of George Bailey; d. 20 Nov 1906. DNB. [Mother perhaps Eliza Shute (IGI)]