About Henry Eden
Lived 1798 – 1888 (aged 89–90). Henry Eden was a naval officer.
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. Eden joined the Royal Navy in 1811. 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. In 1848 he was appointed Commodore-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, before being promoted to serve temporarily as Admiral-Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard in 1854.
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. but had no children.
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