Anthony Eden’s Son, Nicholas, Dies

LONDON — Nicholas Eden, son of former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and a former undersecretary in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, has died at age 54 after a long illness, it was reported Tuesday.

Nicholas became Earl of Avon on his father’s death in 1977. The title will now lapse because Nicholas Eden never married and there are no heirs to the title, created in 1961 to honor his father.

Anthony Eden was prime minister from 1955 to 1957.

Obituaries in The Times of London and the Daily Telegraph reported that Nicholas Eden died last Saturday. Cause of death was not made public, but ill health had caused him to resign last March as parliamentary undersecretary in the Department of the Environment.