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 AUCKLAND COMPLETE PEERAGE 335 21 July following. His widow, who was b. 1758, d. 18 May 1818, at Eden Farm, in her 60th year. Will pr. June 18 18. BARONY [G.B. 2 and i. George (Eden), Baron Auckland [G.B.], i^ I.] and Baron Auckland [1.], 2nd, f) but ist surv., s. and h., b. 25 Aug. 1784, at Beckenham, Kent. Ed. ^^- '^^4- at Eton, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford ; B.A., 1806 ; M.A., „.„^„_-, 1808. Barrister (Line. Inn) 1809. Deputy Teller of EARLDOM. ^^^ Exchequer 1809-12. M.P. (Whig) for Wood- L 1839 stock, 18 10-12, and 18 13-14. Auditor of Greenwich to Hospital 1814-29, and Commissioner thereof 1829-34. 1 849. President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint (with a seat in the cabinet) Nov. 1830-34. P.C. 22 Nov. 1830. Auditor of the Exchequer, Jan. to Oct. 1834. First Lord of the Admiralty, June to Nov. 1834, Apr. to Sep. 1835, and 1846-49, G.C.B., (Civil) 29 Aug. 1835. Governor Gen. of India, 1835-41, during the disastrous Afghan war. (") On 21 Dec. 1839 he was cr. BARON EDEN of Norwood, Surrey, and EARL OF AUCKLAND. Pres. of the Roy. Asiatic Soc. 1 843 till his death. He d. unm., of a paralytic stroke, I Jan. 1 849, (') at the Grange, Hants (the seat of Lord Ashburton), aged 64, when THE Barony of Eden of Norwood and the Earldom of Auck- land became extinct. Will pr. Feb. 1849. BARONY [G.B. ^ 1.]. 3. Robert John (Eden), Baron Auckland .„ [G.B.], and Baron Auckland [I.], as also Bishop 111. 1849. ^P SoDOR AND Man, being yst. and only surv. br. and h.C^) He was b. 10 July 1799; ed. at Magd. Coll., Cambridge. M.A. 1 8 19, D.D. 1847. Vicar of Eyam, co. Derby, 1823 ; Rector of Herting- fordbury, Herts, 1825; Chaplain to William IV, 1831-37, to Victoria 1837-49, and Vicar of Battersea, Surrey, 1834. Bishop of Sodor and C) His elder br., William Frederick Elliot Eden, M.P. for Woodstock, and Teller of the Exchequer, drowned himself in the Thames, 19 Jan. 1810. V.G. C") His impolicy in entering on this campaign was only equalled by his pusil- lanimity after our disasters had been incurred. V.G. f') " He was a man without shining qualities or showy accomplishments, austere and almost forbidding in his manner, silent and reserved in society, unpretending in public and in private life, and in the H. of Lords taking a rare and modest part in debate. Nevertheless he was universally popular His understanding was excellent, his temper placid, his taste and tact exquisite ; his disposition, notwithstand- ing his apparent gravity, cheerful, and under his cold exterior there was a heart overflowing with human kindness, and with the deepest feelings of affection, charity and benevolence. ... He closed a useful, honourable and prosperous life, with his faculties unimpaired, leaving behind him a memory universally honoured and regretted. (Greville's Memoirs, 2 Jan. 1 849). V.G. C) A grandson of his informs me that he was offered and refused to be placed in remainder to the Earldom at the time of its creation. Such " Tales of a Grand- son " should as a rule be received with caution, but as this is the case of a bishop, it is reasonable to suppose that " such outward things dwelt not in his desires. " V.G.