Career
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 1846 he was made private secretary to Lord Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty.
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.
He lived at Gillingham Hall in Suffolk. They had no children.
