Eden was educated at two independent schools. He attended Sandroyd School in Wiltshire from 1907 to 1910, where he excelled in languages.Thorpe (2003), pp. 48–49. He then started at Eton College in January 1911.Aster 1976, p. 4. There, he won a Divinity prize and excelled at cricket, rugby and rowing, winning House colours in the last.Alan Campbell-Johanson, Eden: The Making of a Statesman, Read Books, 2007, p. 9
