Prince, and at Michaelmas 1825 went to Oriel College, Oxford as a Bible clerk appointed by the Provost, Edward Copleston.
In 1850 he was presented by his college to the vicarage of Aberford, near Leeds, where in 1852 he married Miss Landon, a daughter of his predecessor, and where he remained for the rest of his life in 1885.
He was elected proctor three times in the convocation of the province of York (1869–74–80) and in 1870 was preferred by the archbishop to the prebendal stall of Riccall.
[1] Eden's reputation was made by his editions (for the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology) of Peter Gunning on the Paschal or Lent Fast, 1845, and of Lancelot Andrewes's Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine, 1846; and also an edition of Jeremy Taylor's Works, in 10 vols.
[1] In 1855 Eden published a volume of sixteen Sermons preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, the first of which had been privately printed in 1840 under the title of Early Prayer.
32, On the standing ordinances of religion, but was never a prominent member of the Tractarians, though in his theological opinions he was close to them.