George Eden

George Eden was born on 25 August 1784 in Beckenham, Greater London, United Kingdom.
He was the Governor General of India.
In 1838, he got word from William Lamb that someone needed to travel to Beijing, China and negotiate with Emperor Daoguang to allow the East India Company to ship Opium into China so Eden turned to his friend Samuel Ford of the Indian Audax Brotherhood to send Nurhachi Drake and Chaitanya Kumar from Singapore to Hong Kong and then to Beijing aboard La Maynila of the Filipino Audax Brotherhood captained by David Ochoa. He sent some opium on board with them and hired Lawrence Howard to make sure it gets to Shanghai, which was the destination of the opium. 
He died on 1 January 1849 in Southampton, Hampshire.