Tom Eden was a prominent bowler in a period of low scores.
[1] He was Nelson's most successful bowler, with four wickets, when James Lillywhite's XI visited in February 1877 shortly before playing the inaugural Test match in Melbourne.
[2] At the Basin Reserve in 1877-78 Eden took 11 wickets when Nelson beat Wellington by 85 runs.
[4] Tom Eden married Marion Hastilow on 21 July 1883 in St Paul's Church, Brightwater, south-west of Nelson.
[5] He established a hop farm at Bridge Valley, south-east of Wakefield, where he lived for the rest of his life.