George Rodney Eden (9 September 1853 – 7 January 1940) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Dover and Wakefield
George Rodney Eden was descended from the 3rd Eden Baronet of West Auckland. He was educated at Reading School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He began his ecclesiastical career as Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham. After an incumbency at Bishop Auckland – in latter years he was also Rural Dean – he began what his Times obituary described as "nearly forty years of quiet but efficient service to the episcopate". He served as Chair of the Education Committee of the Church of England National Assemby.
His daughter Dorothy, herself mentioned in Despatches during the Great War, married a clergyman, Clement Mallory Ricketts who was Bishop of Dunwich from 1945 until 1955.
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