| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Eden of Winton | |
| Office: | Minister of Posts and Telecommunications |
| Primeminister: | Edward Heath |
| Term Start: | 7 April 1972 |
| Term End: | 8 March 1974 |
| Predecessor: | Christopher Chataway |
| Successor: | Office abolished |
| Office1: | Minister of State for Industry |
| Primeminister1: | Edward Heath |
| Term Start1: | 15 October 1970 |
| Term End1: | 6 April 1972 |
| Predecessor1: | Office established |
| Successor1: | Tom Boardman |
| Office2: | Minister of State for Technology |
| Primeminister2: | Edward Heath |
| Term Start2: | 23 June 1970 |
| Term End2: | 15 October 1970 |
| Predecessor2: | Eric Varley |
| Successor2: | Office abolished |
| Office4: | Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West |
| Term Start4: | 18 February 1954 |
| Term End4: | 13 May 1983 |
| Office3: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status3: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label3: | Life peerage |
| Term Start3: | 3 October 1983 |
| Term End3: | 11 June 2015 |
| Predecessor4: | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil |
| Successor4: | John Butterfill |
| Birth Name: | John Benedict Eden |
| Birth Date: | 15 September 1925 |
| Birth Place: | England |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Nationality: | British |
| Spouse: | |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Children: | 4 |
| Education: |
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John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, (15 September 1925 – 23 May 2020), known as Sir John Eden, 9th Baronet, from 1963 to 1983, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West from 1954 to 1983.[2] [3]
Eden was the son of Sir Timothy Calvert Eden and Edith Mary Prendergast. He was educated at Eton College and St Paul's School, New Hampshire, in the US. He served as a Lieutenant with the Rifle Brigade, 2nd Gurkha Rifles and the Gilgit Scouts during the Second World War. He was a nephew of Sir Anthony Eden (1897–1977), who served as prime minister from 1955 to 1957, and he succeeded his father Sir Timothy Calvert Eden to his baronetcies in 1963. He was the 9th Baronet of West Auckland and the 7th Baronet of Maryland.
After unsuccessfully contesting the 1953 Paddington North by-election, Eden was first elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West at the 1954 Bournemouth West by-election, which he would continue to represent from 1954 until 1983. When first elected, he was the Baby of the House, the youngest member of the House of Commons. He was appointed to the Privy Council on 10 April 1972 and was created a life peer as Baron Eden of Winton, of Rushyford in the County of Durham on 3 October 1983, following his retirement from the House of Commons. He retired from the House of Lords on 11 June 2015 under the provisions of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.[4] Following the death of Lord Healey on 3 October 2015, Eden became the oldest surviving former MP with the earliest date of first election.
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Eden was twice married:
| Crest: | A dexter Arm embowed in Armour couped at the shoulder proper and grasping a Garb fesswise as in the Arms banded Vert |
| Coronet: | A Coronet of a Baron |
| Escutcheon: | Gules on a Chevron Argent between three Garbs Or banded Vert as many Escallops Sable |
| Supporters: | On either side a Lion rampant guardant Gules about the mane of each a Chain pendant therefrom a Portcullis Or that on the dexter side holding by the interior paw a Cross Patonce also Or and that on the sinister side holding by the interior paw a Rose Branch proper having three Double Roses Argent and Gules barbed and seeded proper, the Compartment comprising a Mount rising in the centre and growing therefrom Fir Trees and Beech Trees in the foreground a Bay with Cliffs proper and a Rivulet wavy Azure running across a Sandy Beach also proper into the Sea barry wavy of four Azure and Argent |
| Motto: | Si Sit Prudentia ("If there be but prudence") |