John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton

John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, PC (born 15 September 1925) is a retired British Conservative politician.^[1]^[2]

Background

Eton College

Eden was educated at Eton College and St Paul's School, United States. He served as a Lieutenant with the Rifle Brigade, 2nd Gurkha Rifles and the Gilgit Scouts during the Second World War. He is a nephew of Sir Anthony Eden (1897–1977), who served as prime minister from 1955 to 1957, and he succeeded his father Sir Timothy Calvert Eden to his baronetcies in 1963. He is the 9th Baronet of West Auckland and the 7th Baronet of Maryland.

After an unsuccessful attempt to contest the 1953 Paddington North by-election, he was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West from 1954 until 1983. When first elected, he was the youngest member of the House of Commons. He was appointed to the Privy Council on 10 April 1972 and was created a life peer as Baron Eden of Winton, of Rushyford in the County of Durham on 3 October 1983,^[3] following his retirement from the House of Commons. He retired from the House of Lords on 11 June 2015 under the provisions of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.^[4] Following the death of Lord Healey on 3 October 2015, Eden became the surviving former MP with the earliest date of first election.

Appointments:

He has been twice married:

1) Belinda Jane Pascoe (1954 - divorced 1974); four children
- The Honourable Emily Rose Eden (born 1959)
- The Honourable Arabella Charlotte Eden (born 1960)
- The Honourable Robert Frederick Calvert Eden (born 30 April 1964)
- The Honourable John "Jack" Edward Morton Eden (born 1966)
2) Margaret Ann Gordon, a former wife of the Viscount Strathallan

Arms of John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton
Coronet A Coronet of a Baron Crest A dexter Arms embowed in Armour couped at the shoulder proper and grasping a Garb fesswise as in the Arms banded Vert Escutcheon Gules on a Chevron Argent between three Garbs Or banded Vert as many Escallops Sable Supporters On either side a Lion rampant guardant Gules about the mane of each a Chain pendant therefrom a Portcullis Or that on the dexter side holding by the interior paw a Cross Patonce also Or and that on the sinister side holding by the interior paw a Rose Branch proper having three Double Roses Argent and Gules barbed and seeded proper, the Compartment comprising a Mount rising in the centre and growing therefrom Fir Trees and Beech Trees in the foreground a Bay with Cliffs proper and a Rivulet wavy Azure running across a Sandy Beach also proper into the Sea barry wavy of four Azure and Argent Motto Si Sit Prudentia

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Cranborne	Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West 1954–1983	Succeeded by John Butterfill
Preceded by Tony Benn	Baby of the House 1954	Succeeded by John Woollam

Babies of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Dickson Levy-Lawson Gordon-Lennox Harrison Cavendish F. Smith Curran Milton Scott Hill Rigg Turnour Wodehouse Mills Wolmer Sassoon Esmonde Whitty Stanley Sweeney Harmsworth Evans Rhys Lucas-Tooth Lee Owen Robinson Willoughby de Eresby C. Taylor Macmillan Profumo Millington Carson Jenkins Baker Benn Teevan Benn Eden Woollam Clarke Kirk Kimball Cooke Ferranti Wolrige-Gordon Channon E. Taylor Steel Ryan Huckfield Devlin Elis-Thomas Hayman MacKay Alton Dorrell Sands Dorrell Carron Kennedy M. Taylor Leslie Lammy Teather Swinson C. Smith Nash Black

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