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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP (18 February 1609 – 9 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 1660 to 1667.
The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and former advisor to Charles I and Charles II, is his account of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Originally published between 1702 and 1704 as The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England , it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered.
George Edward Laurence Villiers, 8th Earl of Clarendon (born 12 February 1976) is the only son of the 7th Earl and his wife Jane Diana Dawson. He married Bryonie V. L. Leask, daughter of Major-General Anthony de Camborne Lowther Leask, while still styled as Lord Hyde.
Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (28 November 1661 – 31 March 1723), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was an English military officer, politician and colonial administrator. He was propelled into the forefront of English politics when he and part of his army defected from the Catholic King James II to support the newly ...
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 (1609–1674), and thus was great-grandfather of two British monarchs, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne. He lived at Dinton and later at Purton, both in Wiltshire. [1]
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609 – 1674), English statesman, historian, and maternal grandfather of Queen Mary II and Queen Anne Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (1661 – 1723), styled Viscount Cornbury, Governor of New York and New Jersey, perhaps best known for the claims of his cross-dressing
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674), English historian and statesman; Edward Hyde (died 1665), British MP for Salisbury; Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (1661–1723), Governor of New York and New Jersey; Edward Hyde (Governor of North Carolina) (1667–1712), first Governor of North Carolina (January–September 1712)
He was the eldest son of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, and his second wife, Frances Aylesbury. He was thus a brother of Anne Hyde, and maternal uncle to both Queen Mary II and Queen Anne. Both he and his brother Laurence Hyde were brought up partly at Antwerp and Breda, by their mother. Clarendon before 1660 made use of Henry as copyist ...