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Sir

John Eden, 4th Baronet (1740–1812), was a British politician who sat in

the House of

Commons between 1774 and 1790. Eden was the eldest son of Sir

Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet and his wife Mary Davison of Beamish, county Durham,

and was born on 16 September 1740. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 25 June

1755. He was

educated at Eton College from

1755 to 1758 and at Trinity

College, Cambridge in 1759. He married firstly Catherine

Thompson daughter of John Thompson of Kirby Hall, Yorkshire on 26 June 1764 and

secondly Dorothea Johnson, of York on 9 April 1767. In 1774 he

was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Durham County and was a supporter of

Lord North's administration. He was returned again in 1780 although

it was said of him shortly after that ‘He holds the business of the House in

great contempt, generally comes down after dinner, and is always the first to

call for the question.’ He was re-elected in 1784 and at the time of the

Regency crisis in 1788 complained of being recalled to parliament. There is no

record of his ever having spoken in the House and appeared to prefer hunting to

spending time at parliament. In 1789 he became anxious about his seat citing

the threat of an alien banker and was defeated in the 1790 British

general election Eden died on 23 August 1812.