Born in London, he won scholarships to the Slade School of Art in 1929-30 and Royal Academy Schools in 1930-32. At the Slade he won a first-class prize for drawing and was a silver medallist for Life Painting at the RA. He studied art history at Cambridge under Roger Fry and sculpture under Henry Moore. He exhibited professionally with the London Group and the New English Art Club and was a well-respected teacher on the staff of a wide range of London and home counties schools including Wimbledon and Hornsey Art Colleges. Professor Carel Weight declared Eade one of the best draughtsmen in the country and his work was praised by the leading art critics of the time, Roger Fry, Clive Bell and Eric Newton. Rugby Art Gallery and Museum and UCL Art Museum hold examples of his work. His bronze portrait bust of Sir Clifford Curzon is in the collection of the Royal College of Music. Tweeddale Museum in Peebles held a major retrospective show in 2004.