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|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]<br />
|name = Sir Ashley Eden<br />
|honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]<br />
|image = Sir Ashley Eden.png<br />
|office = [[List of colonial heads of Burma|Chief Commissioner of Burma]]<br />
|term_start = 18 April 1871<br />
|term_end = 14 April 1875<br />
|monarch =<br />
|predecessor = [[Albert Fytche]]<br />
|successor = [[Augustus Rivers Thompson]]<br />
|birth_date = 13 November 1831<br />
|birth_place = [[Hertingfordbury]], [[Hertfordshire]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|1887|07|08|1831|11|13|df=y}}<br />
|death_place = <br />
|nationality = [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]]<br />
|spouse = Eva Maria Money<!--{{marriage|Eva Maria Money}}---><br />
|relations = [[Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland]]<br />
|children = <br />
|alma_mater = [[Winchester College|Winchester]]<br />
|occupation = [[Administrator of the Government|Administrator]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Sir Ashley Eden''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCSI|CIE}} (13 November 1831&nbsp;– 8 July 1887) was an official and diplomat in [[British India]].<br />
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==Background and education==<br />
Eden was born at [[Hertingfordbury]], [[Hertfordshire]], the third son of [[Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland]], [[Bishop of Bath and Wells]], by Mary Hurt, daughter of Francis Edward Hurt, of [[Alderwasley]], [[Derbyshire]]. His uncle was [[George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland]]. He was educated first at [[Rugby School|Rugby]] and then at [[Winchester College|Winchester]], until 1849, in which year he received a nomination to the Indian civil service.<br />
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==Public life==<br />
Eden spent 1850 and 1851 at the [[Honourable East India Company|East India Company]]'s college at [[East India Company College|Haileybury]], but did not pass out last of his term until December 1851. In 1852 he reached India, and was first posted as assistant to the magistrate and collector of [[Rájsháhí]]. In the year 1854 he was recruited as a sub divisional officer of Jangipur. In 1856 he was promoted to be magistrate at [[Moorshedábád]], and during the [[Indian Mutiny]] he checked sympathy with the revolt in that city. In 1860 he was appointed secretary to the government of Bengal and an ''ex officio'' member of the Bengal legislative council. This post he held for eleven years, during the last part of [[John Peter Grant|Sir John Peter Grant's]] lieutenant-governorship, and throughout [[Sir Cecil Beadon]]'s and [[Sir William Grey]]'s terms of office.<br />
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In 1860 Eden accompanied a force ordered to invade the hill state of [[Sikkim]] in the [[Himalaya]]s, as political agent, and in March 1861 he signed the [[Treaty of Tumlong]] with the [[raja]], [[Sidkeong Namgyal]], which secured protection to travellers and free trade.<ref name="Comm">{{cite book|title=Commodities of Empire: Working Paper No.9|first1=Vibha|last1=Arora|chapter=Routing the Commodities of Empire through Sikkim (1817-1906)|journal=Commodities of Empire Working Paper|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/working-papers/WP09.pdf|publisher=[[Open University]]|issn=1756-0098|year=2008}}</ref> This success caused Eden to be appointed special envoy to the hill state of [[Bhutan]] in 1863. He was accompanied by no armed force and his demands were rejected. He signed a treaty favourable to the Bhutiás. This treaty was not ratified by the supreme government, and the [[Bhutan War]] resulted.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
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In 1871 Eden became the first civilian governor of British [[Burma]], a post he held until his appointment in 1877 as lieutenant-governor of Bengal. The [[Eden Mohila College]] in Dhaka was named after him in 1878.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eden Mohila College|url=https://www.emc.edu.bd/Homes/collegeHistory|access-date=2020-09-09|website=www.emc.edu.bd}}</ref> In 1878 he was made a [[Order of the Star of India|K.C.S.I.]], and in 1882 resigned the lieutenant-governorship.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} After his retirement from India, on being appointed a member of the secretary of state's council in 1882, admirers founded in his honour the [[Eden Hospital for Women and Children]] in [[Calcutta]], and a statue was erected. The [[Eden canal]] joins the [[Ganges]] and the [[Teesta River|Tistá]], and was intended to relieve [[Bihar]] from famine.<br />
Eden returned to England and attended the [[Council of India]] for the remainder of his life.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Eden married Eva Maria Money, daughter of [[Vice-Admiral]] Rowland Money. They had no children. Eden died suddenly of paralysis on 9 July 1887, aged 55.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{EB1911|wstitle = Eden, Sir Ashley|volume=8|page=923}}<br />
*{{DNB|wstitle=Eden, Ashley|ref=none}}<br />
*{{cite ODNB|first1 =H. M.|last1= Stephens|title = Eden, Sir Ashley (1831–1887)|first2= Katherine|last2= Prior|id = 8447}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book |title=Bengal Under The Lieutenant-Governors |url=https://archive.org/details/bengalunderlieut02buckiala |first=Charles Edward |last=Buckland |volume=2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bengalunderlieut02buckiala/page/686 686]–759 |location=Calcutta |publisher=S. K. Lahiri & Co |year=1901}}<br />
* {{Cite book|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39797/page/n119 99]–124|title=Distinguished Anglo-Indians|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39797|author=William Ferguson Beatson Laurie|date=1888}}<br />
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