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Frederick Charles Eden (8 March 1864 – 15 July 1944) was an English church architect and designer. Frederick Eden was born in Brighton, Sussex, England. He was the son of
Frederick Morton Eden Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2nd Baronet, of Maryland (18 June 1766 – 14 November 1809) was an English writer on poverty and pioneering social investigator. Early life Frederick Morton Eden was the eldest son of Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of ...
and Louisa Ann Parker. Eden was a pupil and later assistant of
George Frederick Bodley George Frederick Bodley (14 March 182721 October 1907) was an English Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and worked in partnership with Thomas Garner for much of his career. He was one of the founders of Watt ...
and
Thomas Garner Thomas Garner (1839–1906) was one of the leading English Gothic revival architects of the Victorian era. He is known for his almost 30-year partnership with architect George Frederick Bodley. Early life Born at Wasperton Hill Farm in Warw ...
. Subsequently he started his own architectural practice. He increasingly concentrated on designing church fittings and stained glass. In 1908, he remodelled the interior of St Paul's Church in
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. In 1910, he established a studio in
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, London. In 1919, Eden designed a
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window for the Chapel of Our Lady and St George (Lady Chapel) in St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, replacing a similar one which was there in pre-Reformation times, showing the genealogy of Jesus from
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, father of King David. It is a memorial to the worshippers of St Peter's who gave their lives in the First World War. Eden was a member of the
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. There are drawings by Eden in the collections of the
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1864 births 1944 deaths People from Brighton English ecclesiastical architects English furniture designers British stained glass artists and manufacturers {{england-architect-stub