Admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in many navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force. Admiral is ranked above vice admiral and below admiral of ...

Henry Eden (1798 – 30 January 1888) was a senior British

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officer who went on to be Second Naval Lord.

Naval career

He was born the fourth son of Thomas Eden of Wimbledon, Surrey, the Deputy-Auditor of Greenwich Hospital. Eden joined the

in 1811. He was given command of the

sixth-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works an ...

HMS ''Conway'' in 1832, the

second-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

HMS ''Impregnable'' in 1839 and the

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HMS ''Caledonia'' in 1840. His last seagoing command was HMS ''Collingwood'' from which he was invalided home in 1844. In 1846 he was made private secretary to

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First Lord of the Admiralty First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the title of the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy. He was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs, responsible f ...

. In 1848 he was appointed Commodore-Superintendent of

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, before being promoted to serve temporarily as Admiral-Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard in 1854. He became Second Naval Lord in March 1855 and Third Naval Lord in April 1857 before moving back up to Second Naval Lord again in November 1857 and leaving the Admiralty in March 1858.

Family

In 1849 he married Elizabeth Harriet Georgiana Beresford, daughter of

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. They lived at

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but had no children.

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