{{Short description|Royal Navy Admiral (1798–1888)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Admiral |name= Henry Eden |birth_date=1798 |death_date= 30 January 1888 |birth_place= |death_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= 1811 – 1870 |rank= Admiral |branch= 23px Royal Navy |commands=HMS ''Conway''<br>HMS ''Impregnable''<br>HMS ''Caledonia'' |unit= |battles= |awards= |other_work= }} Admiral '''Henry Eden''' (1798 – 30 January 1888) was a senior British Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Naval Lord.
==Naval career== He was born the fourth son of Thomas Eden of Wimbledon, Surrey, the Deputy-Auditor of Greenwich Hospital.<ref name=Byrne>{{cite wikisource |first=William Richard |last=O'Byrne |chapter=Eden, Henry (a) |title=A Naval Biographical Dictionary |year=1849 |publisher=John Murray}}</ref> Eden joined the Royal Navy in 1811.<ref name=loney>{{cite web|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=176|title= Henry Eden |publisher=William Loney RN|accessdate=8 January 2019}}</ref> He was given command of the sixth-rate HMS ''Conway'' in 1832, the second-rate HMS ''Impregnable'' in 1839 and the first-rate HMS ''Caledonia'' in 1840.<ref name=loney/> His last seagoing command was HMS ''Collingwood'' from which he was invalided home in 1844.<ref name=Byrne/>
In 1846 he was made private secretary to Lord Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty.<ref name=dnb>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Eden, Henry |volume= 16 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |pages= 358-359 |short= 1}}</ref> In 1848 he was appointed Commodore-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, before being promoted to serve temporarily as Admiral-Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard in 1854.<ref name="Bramble1891">{{cite book |last1=Bramble |first1=James |title=Promotion and Retirement of Flag Officers and Captains of the Royal Navy |date=1891 |publisher=Holbrook & Son |location=Portsmouth |pages=62-66}}</ref>
He became Second Naval Lord in March 1855 and Third Naval Lord in April 1857 before moving back up to Second Naval Lord again in November 1857 and leaving the Admiralty in March 1858.<ref name=loney/>
==Family== In 1849 he married Elizabeth Harriet Georgiana Beresford, daughter of Lord George Beresford.<ref name=peerage/> They lived at Gillingham Hall in Norfolk<ref name=peerage>{{cite web|url=http://thepeerage.com/p3266.htm#i32652 |title=Henry Eden|publisher=The Peerage.com|accessdate=8 January 2019}}</ref> but had no children.<ref name=dnb/>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box|title=Second Naval Lord|before=Sir Richard Dundas|after=Sir Richard Dundas|years=March 1855 – April 1857}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir Peter Richards}} {{s-ttl|title=Third Naval Lord |years=April 1857–November 1857}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Alexander Milne}} |- {{succession box|title=Second Naval Lord|before=Sir Richard Dundas|after=Sir Richard Dundas|years=November 1857 – March 1858}} {{end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eden, Henry}} Category:1798 births Category:1888 deaths Category:Royal Navy admirals Category:Lords of the Admiralty