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EDEN—EDGELL. Sir Graham Moore, G.C.B.; nephew of Sir Robt. Eden, Bart., who was Governor of the province of Maryland in 1776, as also of the late Lord Auckland; and cousin of This officer entered the Navy, 15 June, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, with whom he cruized most actively on the Home and North American stations, latterly as Midshipman, until Aug. 1815. In Nov. following, after an intermediate attachment to the 74, and  80, flag-ships at the Nore and at Cork of Sir Chas. Rowley and Sir Benj. Hallowell, he joined the 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, and soon afterwards sailed with Lord Amherst on an embassy to China – while on bis return from which country, in Feb. 1817, he suffered shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar. Obtaining his first commission on 20 Oct. in the same year, Mr. Eden was next appointed – 22 June, 1818, to the 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, under whom he cruized for some time off Lisbon – and, 28 March, 1820, to the  80, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Graham Moore, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. He there assumed the successive command, 23 Oct. 1821, and 19 July, 1822, of the and  sloops, and in both those vessels was very efficiently occupied during the revolution in Greece. On the paying off of the, in Feb. 1825, Capt. Eden was presented with a handsome sword as a “tribute of respect” from his ship’s company. He attained Post-rank, while in command of the yacht, 30 April, 1827, and subsequently joined, 17 Feb. 1832, the  28, in which frigate, after being very actively employed in the North Sea during the interruption of our friendly relations with the Dutch, and also as senior officer in the Tagus under Sir Wm. Parker in 1832-3, he proceeded to South America, where he continued until his return to England, in Oct. 1835. We next find him officiating, in the 104, and  120, as Flag-Captain, from 30 April, 1839, until April, 1842, to Sir Graham Moore, then Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth. His last appointment afloat was, 7 May, 1844, to the 80, fitting for the flag of Sir Geo. Eras. Seymour, from which ship, however, his health obliged him to invalid in the following Aug.

Capt. Eden has held the office of Private Secretary, since July, 1846, to his relative Lord Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty. – Hallett and Robinson.

 EDEN. 

is brother of Walter D. Eden, Esq., of the Admiralty, Somerset House, and of Lieutenant Chas. Eden, of the Indian Navy, who, entering that service in 1838, took part, during an employment of 18 months in the steamer, on the China station, in the operations of 1841 against Canton and Chusan, and was afterwards, when in the, one of the first to enter a breach created in the walls of a strongly fortified pah belonging to a rebel New Zealand chieftain named Kawiti, 11 Jan. 1846 – services which twice obtained, him mention in the ‘London Gazette.’ One of Commander Eden’s sisters is married to a brother of Capt. T. L. Peake, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Jan. 1825, as Fst.,-cl. Vol., on board the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas, Mingaye, lying at Newhaven for the purposes of the Coast Blockade. Between Jan. 1827, and Feb. 1832, he served, as Midshipman, on the South American, Mediterranean, and Lisbon stations, in the 28, Capts. Michael Seymour and Thos. Bourchier, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Benj. Aplin, and 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker. He then, having just passed his examination, became successively Mate of the and  steamers, both commanded by Lieut. Rich. Bastard, on the Mediterranean station, where he remained until transferred, 10 Jan. 1834, to the Gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings, In Dec. of the latter year Mr. Eden joined an expedition preparing under Col. Chesney for an explorative mission to the Euphrates, which river was ultimately reached after the laborious undertaking had been accomplished of transporting two steam-vessels from the vicinity of Antioch overland to the town of Bir, a tract of 140 miles, almost impassable for the want of roads. In one of the steamers, the Mr. Eden was unfortunately wrecked during a typhoon, 21 May, 1836. Obtaining, on his return to England, a commission dated 15 Feb. 1837, he was immediately appointed to the 10, Capt. John Clements Wickham, whom he assisted in the survey, from that year until 1841, of the coast of Australia and of Bass Straits. As Senior Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, which ship he joined 15 Sept. 1841, Mr. Eden, we find, was very actively employed in the Tang-tse-Kiang during the closing operations of the Chinese war. The day after the taking of Woosung, 17 June, 1842, he landed in command of the boats’ crews belonging to the squadron, and of the marines of the, and destroyed the enemy’s forts, magazines, &c. His appointments, after the period of his quitting the, were – 29 Aug. 1842, to the 44, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, on the Indian station – 30 Feb. 1844, to the Factory at Woolwich for the Study of Steam – and, 19 Dec. 1844, to the command of the steam-vessel, on the Mediterranean station. Since his last promotion, which took place 29 June, 1846, Commander Eden has been on half-pay.

He married, 27 Oct. 1846, Lavinia Mary, youngest daughter of Wm. Rivers, Esq., of Greenwich Hospital. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 EDEN. 

is son, we believe, of Thos. Eden, Esq., by Frances, daughter of Capt. Hon. John Rodney, R.N.; great-grandson of Thomas sixth Earl of Westmeath; and nephew of

This officer entered the Navy, 27 Sept. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, attached to the squadron in the Mediterranean, where, and on the Home and North American stations, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, in the 46, Capt. Chas. Sotheby, 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, 28, Capt. Adolphus FitzClarence, and  46, and  120, flag-ships of Sir Chas. Ogle and Sir Thos. Foley. His appointments as Lieutenant, to which rank he was promoted 22 Nov. 1830, appear to have been – 9 Dec. 1831, to the 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, stationed in the Mediterranean – and, 23 March, 1833, to the 104, in which ship, and the  120, he officiated as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Thos. Williams, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, until the receipt of his Commander’s commission, 13 April, 1836. His next appointment was, 4 Feb. 1841, to the 16, off the coast of Africa, where he succeeded in capturing as many as 10 slave-vessels. From Aug. 1842, to Jan. 1843, he acted as Captain of the 28, but then returned to the, which sloop he brought home and paid off in Aug. 1843. Since his elevation to his present rank, 23 Sept. 1844, Capt. Eden has not been afloat. – Frederick Dufaur.

 EDGELL. 

, born in 1809, is only son of the late Rear-Admiral Edgell.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College in May, 1821; and embarked, in 1823, as a Volunteer, on board the 18, Capt. Wm. Rochfort, employed off the west coast of Scotland in the suppression of smuggling. After serving for nearly three years as Midshipman and Mate, on the North America and West India, Home, and Mediterranean stations, in the 18, Capts. Henry Edwards and Wm. Alex. Bailie Hamilton, 