High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An "Anthony Eden" hat, or simply an "Anthony Eden", was a silk-brimmed, black felt Homburg of the kind favoured in the 1930s by Anthony Eden, later 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977). Eden was a Cabinet Minister in the British National Government, holding the offices of Lord Privy Seal from 1934–35 and Foreign Secretary 1935 to 1938. He was later Dominions Secretary from 1939–40, War Secretary in 1940, Foreign Secretary from 1940–45 and 1951–55, and Prime Minister 1955 to 1957.