Edward Hyde (baptised 1 April 1645; died 10 January 1665) briefly served as a Member of Parliament in the
House of Commons of England.
Biography
Hyde was the third son of
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 16099 December 1674), was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II fro ...
. He was educated at
Christ Church, Oxford and the
Middle Temple
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn ...
. In 1664, age nineteen, he was elected to Parliament for
Salisbury
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath.
Salisbury is in the southeast of ...
, on the nomination of his father, the
High Steward of the city. He died the following year.
[John. P. Ferris]
HYDE, Hon. Edward (1645-65), of the Middle Temple, London.
in ''The History of Parliament
The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography, in w ...
: the House of Commons 1660-1690'' (1983).
References
1645 births
1665 deaths
Younger sons of earls
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Members of the Middle Temple
English MPs 1661–1679
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