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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.
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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.
British diplomat, penal reformer, and politician. Educated at Durham School, Eton College, and Christ Church, Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1768. His Principles of Penal Law (1771) argued for fewer capital offenses and for the reform of offenders as against punishment.
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.
William Eden may refer to: William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (1744–1814) William Eden (MP) (1782–1810), MP for Woodstock, son of the above. Sir William Eden, 7th Baronet (1849–1915), British aristocrat and politician.
The first creation came in 1789 when the prominent politician and financial expert William Eden was made Baron Auckland in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1793, he was created Baron Auckland , of West Auckland in the County of Durham, in the Peerage of Great Britain.
