Eden baronets

The Eden Baronetcy, of West Auckland in the County of Durham, and the Eden Baronetcy, of Maryland in North America, are two titles in the Baronetage of England and Baronetage of Great Britain respectively that have been united under a single holder since 1844.

The family traces its ancestry to Robert de Eden (d. 1413) but probably lived in the Durham area since the twelfth century.

They managed to keep their lands despite joining the Revolt of the Northern Earls in 1569 and being Royalists in the Civil War of the 1640s.

He was the son of Colonel John Eden, a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War.

On 3 October 1983 he was created a life peer as Baron Eden of Winton, of Rushyford in the County of Durham, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.