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Eden baronets of West Auckland (1672)

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The Eden baronetcy of West Auckland was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 November 1672 for the barrister Robert Eden, subsequently Member of Parliament for County Durham.[1][2] His grandfather Robert Eden of Windlestone was a supporter of the Royalist cause in the English Civil War, nominated as a Knight of the Royal Oak.[2][3]

The 2nd and 4th Baronets also represented County Durham in the House of Commons. The 4th Baronet assumed the additional surname of Johnson. On his death in 1844, unmarried, the title was inherited by Sir William Eden, 4th Baronet, of the second creation, who became also the 6th Baronet of West Auckland as well. He served as High Sheriff of Durham in 1848.[1]

The 9th and 7th Baronet was a Conservative politician. On 3 October 1983 he was created a life peer as Baron Eden of Winton, of Rushyford in the County of Durham, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[4]

Windlestone Hall was the family seat from the 17th to the 20th century. In 1949 it was at Fritham, near Lyndhurst, Hampshire.[5]

The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother Hon. John Edward Morton Eden (born 1966).[8]

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