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Robert Eden (priest)

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Robert Eden (26 August 1701 in Newcastle upon Tyne – 11 July 1759 in Winchester) was an English priest.[1]

Eden was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford.[2] He was incorporated at Cambridge in 1734.[3]

He was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1743 until his resignation in 1749. He was then archdeacon again from 1756 until his death.[4]

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  1. ^ Sermons: And Other Remains of Robert Lowth, Sometime Bishop of London Louth, R (Hall, P ed) p40: London, J.G. and F. Rivington; 1834
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Eden, Robert (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ "Eden, Robert (EDN734R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, pp. 86–87