Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon

Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon

Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon (3 October 1930 – 17 August 1985), styled Viscount Eden between 1961 and 1977, was a British Conservative politician and younger son of Prime Minister Anthony Eden and his first wife, Beatrice (née Beckett). He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his father in 1977, his elder brother Pilot Officer Simon Gascoigne Eden having been killed in action in June 1945, while serving as a navigator with the RAF in Burma.[1]

Lord Avon served under Margaret Thatcher as a Lord-in-Waiting from 1980 to 1983, as Under-Secretary of State for Energy from 1983 to 1984 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Environment from 1984 until shortly before his death from AIDS the following year at the age of 54.[2] Widely known to have been homosexual,[2] Lord Avon was unmarried and his titles died with him. The character of Peter Morton in the film Peter's Friends is loosely inspired by him.

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Political offices
Preceded by
The Lord Mowbray
Lord-in-Waiting
1980 - 1983
Succeeded by
The Lord Lucas of Chilworth
Preceded by
John Moore
David Mellor
Joint Under-Secretary of State for Energy
with John Moore 1983
Giles Shaw 1983–1984

1983–1984
Succeeded by
Giles Shaw
David Hunt
Preceded by
Sir George Young, Bt
Hon. William Waldegrave
Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Environment
with Sir George Young, Bt

1984–1985
Succeeded by
Sir George Young, Bt
Angela Rumbold
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Anthony Eden
Earl of Avon
1977–1985
Extinct



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