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 was appointed Professor of Hindustani at Haileybury. On the breaking up of that college he became Political Secretary at the India Office. He was called to the Bar 6 June, 1860. He was subsequently Secretary of Legation in Persia (1860—64), and in 1866 Private Secretary to Lord Cranborne. He sat in Parliament for Penryn and Falmouth from 1868—74. He died in the Isle of Wight 16 July, 1883. He left several works behind him, the best known of which are his translations from the Persian, particularly the Gulistan of Sadi (1852), and his Hindustani Grammar (1847). He was employed by Mr. Murray to write his Handbooks for India (1859—83).

Admitted 3 March, 1787.

Eldest son of Sir Robert Eden, Bart., Governor of Maryland, and nephew of (q.v.), first Lord Auckland. He was educated at Oxford, where he graduated 1787. He was one of the founders of the Globe Insurance Company, and died at the office of that company 14 Nov. 1809. His life was chiefly spent in investigations into the state of the poor in England. The result of his labours was a work on The State of the Poor, or a History of the Working Glasses, published in three vols., in 1797, a work which still stands at the head of all literature on the same subject. He subsequently produced many other treatises, including an Address on the Maritime Rights of Great Britain (1807), and a poem entitled The Vision, showing that he possessed a mind calculated to excel in other directions than that of the "dreary science."

Admitted 24 April, 1765.

Third son of Sir Robert Eden of West Auckland, Durham, Bart, He was born 3 April, 1744. He was educated at Oxford, where he had a brilliant career. He was called to the Bar 17 June, 1768. For some years he followed the profession of the law with diligence, and in 1772 published a work on The Principles of Penal Law; but he subsequently abandoned law for politics, and entered Parliament in 1774. Here he devoted himself to legal and economical questions, as a friend and follower of Pitt, who engaged him to negociate the commercial treaty with France, which was concluded in 1787. In 1788 he went as special ambassador to Spain, and on his return was raised to the Irish Peerage as Baron Auckland (18 Nov. 1789). He was next employed on diplomatic service in the United States and in Holland, and remained at the Hague during the difficult times of 1791—93, when the French revolutionary armies were threatening Holland. On his return from the Hague he retired from public life, and was made a Peer of Great Britain. 22 May, 1793. Besides his legal treatise he published A History of New Holland (1787), and a pamphlet on The War (1795), which was supposed to embody the views of Pitt. His Memoirs were edited by his son, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, in 1860—62.

Admitted 14 September, 1762.

Only son of Richard Edgeworth, Barrister, of the Middle Temple and of Edgeworth's Town, co. Longford. He spent some time at Trinity College, Dublin, and afterwards at Oxford; but his first teacher was Patrick Hughes, Oliver Goldsmith's early tutor. Whilst at the Temple he made acquaintance