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William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, PC (Ire), FRS (3 April 1745 – 28 May 1814) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1793.
Robert Anthony Eden, I conde de Avon (Durham, 12 de junio de 1897-Alvediston, Wiltshire, 14 de enero de 1977), fue un político británico, miembro del Partido Conservador, que se desempeñó como primer ministro entre 1955 y 1957 tras la dimisión de su mentor, Winston Churchill.
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Abstract: The distinctive role played by William Eden in the penal reform debate of the late eighteenth century is examined and his emphasis on leniency in the exercise of punishment is identified.
Sir William Eden, a landowner, huntsman, traveller, collector and amateur painter, was the second son of the sixth Baronet, and succeeded his father in 1873. The Eden family motto is 'Si sit prudentia' (if there be but prudence). He lived at Windlestone, Ferry Hill, County Durham.
Politician and diplomat. A younger son of the well-known Durham family, Eden trained as a lawyer after leaving Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1774 for Woodstock and quickly established himself as a useful man, with a particular interest in economic matters and in penal reform.
EDEN, William, 1st Baron Auckland [I] (1744-1814), of Eden Farm, Beckenham, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
