Richard Jefferson Eaton

{{short description|British politician}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Cambridgeshire

|term_start = 19 January 1835

|term_end = 9 August 1847

|predecessor = Richard Greaves Townley
Charles Yorke
John Walbanke-Childers

|successor = Eliot Yorke
Richard Greaves Townley
George Manners

|alongside = Eliot Yorke (1835–1847)
John Peter Allix (1841–1847)
Richard Greaves Townley (1835–1841)

|birth_date = 1806

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|nationality = British

|party = Conservative

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Richard Jefferson Eaton (1806 – 27 July 1847){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "C" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons1.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=26 March 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126095132/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons1.htm|archivedate=26 November 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=8 August 2018}} was a British Conservative politician.{{cite book

|last=Stooks Smith

|first=Henry.

|editor=Craig, F. W. S.

|title=The Parliaments of England

|origyear=1844-1850

|edition=2nd

|year=1973

|publisher=Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn=0-900178-13-2

|url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/24

|pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/24 24–25]

|accessdate=29 July 2018

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Eaton was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire at the 1835 general election and held the seat until 1847 when he did not seek re-election.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|pages=357–358}}