Admiral Henry Eden (1798 – 30 January 1888) was a senior British Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Naval Lord.
He was born the fourth son of Thomas Eden of Wimbledon, Surrey, the Deputy-Auditor of Greenwich Hospital.
[2] His last seagoing command was HMS Collingwood from which he was invalided home in 1844.
[3] In 1848 he was appointed Commodore-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, before being promoted to serve temporarily as Admiral-Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard in 1854.
[5] They lived at Gillingham Hall in Norfolk[5] but had no children.