Possible Clues:

• Observed housing many in area mentioned specifically
• Proposed maiden, not eccentric
• Made maiden - not out
• Put forward at home among number getting married
• Named an Edward without an N in it
• No thousand proposal in an Edward
• There isn't any M in a chap called Ted
• Put up
• Moult no bird gets over could be proposed
• Exercised control, with name for duke proposed