Sir William Hynde (c. 1558 – 28 March 1606), of

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, was an English politician.

Family

Hynde was born the eldest son of the MP,

Francis Hynde Sir Francis Hynde (c. 1532 – 21 March 1596), of Madingley, Cambridgeshire and Aldgate, London, was an English politician and landowner particularly associated with the development of Madingley Hall and its manorial estates. Family Francis Hy ...

and educated at

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and

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, 1577. He inherited his father's estates on the latter's death in 1596 and was knighted in 1603.

Career

He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

in 1597. He was subsequently a

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for Cambridgeshire and served as

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for 1600–1. He died in 1606 and was buried at Madingley. He had married twice; firstly Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas, 2nd Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk and secondly another Elizabeth, the daughter of William Lawrence of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire and the widow of John Hutton of Dry Drayton. He had no children.

References

1550s births 1606 deaths People from South Cambridgeshire District Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Members of Gray's Inn English MPs 1597–1598 High Sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire {{16thC-England-MP-stub