Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore

Henry William Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore (13 March 1816 – 2 October 1891) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.

The son of Henry Eaton, he was head of William Eaton & Sons, China-silk brokers. He was also Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1865 to 1880, and from 1885 to 1887. The latter year Eaton was raised to the peerage as Baron Cheylesmore, of Cheylesmore in the City of Coventry and County of Warwick.

Lord Cheylesmore married Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Leader Harman, in 1839. They had three sons and one daughter. His wife died in 1877 and his eldest son two years later. Cheylesmore died in October 1891, aged 75, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son William.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Joseph Paxton
Morgan Treherne
Member of Parliament for Coventry
18651880
With: Sir Henry Mather Jackson 1874–1881
Succeeded by
Henry Mather Jackson
William Wills
Preceded by
William Wills
Sir Henry Mather Jackson
Member of Parliament for Coventry
1881 – 1887
With: William Wills 1881–1885
Succeeded by
William Henry Walter Ballantine
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Cheylesmore
1887–1891
Succeeded by
William Eaton