HYDE, Henry (1672-1753) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 1672, o. s. Laurence Hyde, earl of Rochester, and Lady Henrietta Boyle, da. Richard Boyle, earl of Burlington. educ. Eton 1683-7; Eton Coll. Reg. 1441-1698, p.184. travelled abroad (Italy, Germany, Holland) 1687-90; CSP Dom. 1686-7, pp. 399, 449; CSP Dom.1690-91, p. 25. Oxf. Univ. DCL 1700. m. 8 Mar. 1692 (lic. 2 Mar. 1692) (with £16,000) Jane (d.1725), da. of Sir William Leveson Gower^‡, 4th bt., sis. of Sir Leveson Gower, Bar. Gower, 3s. d. v.p., Luttrell, Brief Relation, v. 433; Add. 70075, newsletter, 27 May 1704. 5da. (4 v.p.). Collins, Peerage, (1741 edn.) ii. 306; Add. 72499, f. 173. 10 Dec. 1753; admon. 9 Feb. 1754- June 1783 to da. Catherine, duchess of Queensberry. TNA, PROB 6/130.

Offices Held

Treas. to Queen Mary 1693–4; Bodl. Rawl. letters 98, f. 206; Luttrell, Brief Relation, iii. 65. first clerk of writs in Chancery 1703 – 10; jt. v.-treas. and paymaster-gen. [I], Sept. 1710–16; PC 19 Oct. 1710 – Sept. 1714; commr. building 50 new churches 1711–15. HMC Lords, n.s. ix. 176; E.G.W. Bill, Q. Anne Churches, xxiii.

High steward, Oxf. Univ. 1711 – d.; kpr., Richmond New Park 1711 – 27; ld. lt. Cornw. 1711 – 14.

Guidon and maj. 2nd tp. Horse Gds. Oct. 1691, cornet and maj. Dec. 1691–3.

Gov. Merchant Adventurers 1690. Belvoir, Rutland mss, Letters and Papers, xx; Add. 28079, ff. 59–60.

Parlimentarian

HYDE, Henry, Lord Hyde (1672-1753).

Associated with: Petersham Lodge, Richmond, Surr.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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