Sir William Eden, 7th Baronet

Sir William Morton Eden, 7th and 5th Baronet JP DL (4 April 1849 – 20 February 1915) was a British politician and artist.

[1] He was the second son of eleven children born to the former Elfrida Susanna Harriet Iremonger (1825–1885)[2] and Sir William Eden, 4th Baronet (1803–1873), who was described as "a sober and pious man".

[6] The baronetcy of West Auckland had been created in 1672 for Sir Robert Eden, MP for County Durham, whose father was a Royalist supporter during the English Civil War.

[8] He was also a collector of Impressionists,[9][10] and owned a chalk drawing of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, c. 1750-1754, which is today in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.

[10] Together, they were the parents of five children who survived infancy, including:[13] In 1892, he commissioned the American artist James McNeill Whistler to paint a portrait of his wife, Lady Eden.

[5] Through his only surviving daughter, he was a grandfather of Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, the first British aristocrat to star in a Hollywood movie.

Portrait of his wife, Sybil Frances Grey, by John Singer Sargent , 1905.
His only daughter, Marjorie Eden, Lady Brooke, later Countess of Warwick, by John Singer Sargent .
His third son, Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon , who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .