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Thomas Eden (civil servant)

Thomas Eden (civil servant)

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Thomas Eden, (29 November 1787 – 4 November 1845) was the Secretary to the Governor of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Treasurer of Ceylon[1] (1816–1822), Commissioner of Stamps, and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils.

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Eden was born in England on 29 November 1787, the oldest son of Thomas Eden (1745–1805), the deputy auditor of Greenwich Hospital, and Marina née Jones (1750–?).[2] Eden's father, Thomas, was the fourth son of the third Baronet of West Auckland. On 4 January 1810 he married Frances Elizabeth (?–1879) the daughter of Hon. John Rodney (Colonial Secretary of Ceylon 1806–1833)[2] in Colombo.[3]

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    Ferguson, John (1887). Ceylon in the Jubilee Year. London: John Haddon & Co. p. 257.
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    Marquis of Ruviny and Raineval (1911), The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, London, p. 279{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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    Gold, Joyce (1810). The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects. Vol. 24. p. 86.
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