Rodney Eden

[4] He was born in Sunderland,[5] the son of John Patrick Eden, Rector of Sedgefield and an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral;[5][6] and was a descendant of Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet (of West Auckland) and of the eighteenth century naval hero, Admiral Rodney, after whom he was named.

[7] His daughter, Dorothy, was the first woman in the First World War to be Mentioned in Despatches for ‘bravery while nursing’ in January, 1917.

Eden died at Harpenden, Hertfordshire, and was buried at Great Haseley, Oxfordshire.

[7] His reputation was that of a dedicated and busy ecclesiastical leader attached to his Wakefield diocese who refused translation to a more prestigious see.

[10] He began his ecclesiastical career as Chaplain to Joseph Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham.