Henry Hyde (c. 1563 – 29 September 1634) was an English lawyer and member of Parliament. He was the father 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 from ...

(1609–1674), and thus was great-grandfather of two British monarchs,

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and Queen Anne. He lived at Dinton and later at

Purton Purton is a large village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about northwest of the centre of Swindon. The parish includes the village of Purton Stoke and the hamlets of Bentham, Hayes Knoll, Purton Common, Restrop, The Fox and Widham. Th ...

, both in Wiltshire.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.,'' (1910–1959); reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, p. 263.

Origins

Hyde was born circa 1563, the son of Lawrence Hyde I (d. 1590), MP, by his wife Anne Sybill. His brothers were Sir

Nicholas Hyde Sir Nicholas Hyde (c. 1572 – 25 August 1631) was Lord Chief Justice of England. Origins Hyde was born at Wardour, in Wiltshire, a son of Lawrence Hyde (d. 1590) of West Hatch, Wiltshire, MP for Heytesbury in 1584, by his second wife Anne ...

(c. 1572 – 1631),

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of England (1627–1631) and Lawrence Hyde II (1562–1641),

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, wife of King James I.

Career

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Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...

(then Magdalen Hall), aged 16 in 1579. He graduated BA in 1581, and was raised to the degree of MA in 1584. He entered 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 an ...

and practised as a lawyer. He was Member of Parliament for Ludgershall in 1588–9, and

Old Sarum Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the now ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest re ...

in 1601.''Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Horrobin-Hyte''
Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 748–784. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

Character

Clarendon venerated his father's memory, describing him as the best of fathers and friends, and remarked that none of the honours he received through his life equalled that of being his father's son. His one surviving letter, to his brother Nicholas, suggests a kindly, good-humoured country gentleman, with a concern for the welfare of the poor not always shared by members of his class.

Marriage and children

On 3 April 1597 he married Mary Langford, daughter of Edward Langford and Mary St. Barbe. Their children were: *Anne Hyde (c.1598–?), also known as Jane Silverster. *Elizabeth. *Lawrence (1600–?). *Henry (1601–1627). *Mary (1603–?). *Sibble (1605–?). * Susan Hyde (c.1607–1656), spy for Charles II while exiled in France. *

(1609–1674), eldest son and heir,

Lord Chancellor The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The ...

of England during the reign of Charles II. *Nicholas (1610–1611).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hyde, Henry 1560s births 1634 deaths Hyde family (English aristocracy) People from Purton Politicians from Wiltshire Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of the Middle Temple English MPs 1589 English MPs 1601