Family and Education
b. June 1672, o. s. of Laurence Hyde†, 1st Earl of Rochester, by Lady Henrietta, da. of Richard Boyle†, 1st Earl of Burlington. educ. Eton 1683–7; travelled abroad (Italy, Germany, Holland) 1687–90; Oxf. Univ. DCL 1700. m. 8 Mar. 1692 (with £16,000), Jane (d. 1725), da. of Sir William Leveson Gower, 4th Bt.*, sis. of Sir John Leveson Gower, 5th Bt.*, at least 3s. d.v.p. 3da. d.v.p. suc. fa. as 2nd Earl 2 May 1711, cos. Edward Hyde* as 4th Earl of Clarendon 31 Mar. 1723. Nat. Archs. Ire. Wych mss 1/84, James Linfield to Sir Cyril Wyche*, 4 July 1693; Clarendon Corresp. i. 643–4; Eton Coll. Reg. 1441–1698, p. 184; CSP Dom. 1686–7, pp. 399–400; HMC Finch, iii. 423; Westminster Abbey Reg. (Harl. Soc. x), 251, 254, 267, 269, 313, 356, 385; Luttrell, Brief Relation, ii. 374, 383.
Offices Held
Gov. Merchant Adventurers 1690.
Guidon and maj. 2nd tp. Horse Gds. Oct. 1691, cornet and maj. Dec. 1691–3; first clerk of writs in Chancery 1703–10; jt. v.-treasurer and paymaster-gen. [I] Sept. 1710–16; PC 19 Oct. 1710–Sept. 1714.
Commr. building 50 new churches 1711–15.
High steward, Oxf. Univ. 1711–d.; keeper, Richmond New Park 1711–27; ld. lt. Cornw. 1711–14.
Parlimentarian
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Commons 1690-1715
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HYDE, Henry, Lord Hyde (1672-1753)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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