Background
Born in or near Bristol, he was third son of Thomas Eden, curate of Saint George"s, Bristol, who died when Charles was an infant, leaving a widow and young family in poverty.
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Education
Charles was educated at a day school at Bristol, and at the Liverpool Royal Institution School.
Career
He proceeded Bachelor of Arts with a first class in classics in 1829. In the two following years gained the prizes for the Ellerton theological essay and the chancellor"s English essay, the latter named "On the Use and Abuse of Theory". In 1832, after two failures, was elected a Fellow of his college.
After his ordination (deacon 1833 and priest 1834), he held several university and college offices, and in 1843 succeeded John Henry Newman as vicar of the University Church of Street Mary the Virgin.
He was elected proctor three times in the convocation of the province of York (1869-1874–80), and in 1870 was preferred by the archbishop to the prebendal stall of Riccall. He was popularly called Canon Eden.
He died 14 December 1885.
