Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon ( 1638 - 1709 )

Birth: 02 June 1638 Baptism: St Margaret's Westminster (11 June 1638) Death: 31 October 1709 Burial: Westminster Abbey Education: Oxford; MA (by diploma 1661); Middle Temple (admitted 1661) Career: In exile with his mother at Antwerp and Breda; assisted his father Edward Hyde (FRS 1665) in his correspondence with other Royalists; returned to England at the Restoration (1660); Commissioner for Assessment for Wiltshire (1660-1674), for Middlesex (1661-1663, 1664-1674), for Oxfordshire (1663-1674), and for Berkshire and Westminster (1673-1674); MP for Lyme Regis (1660); MP for Wiltshire (1661-1674); Commissioner for Trade (1660-1668); Commissioner for Oyer and Terminer for Wales (1661); Deputy-Lieutenant of Wiltshire (1661-1662), and for Oxfordshire (1663-1689); Private Secretary to Queen Catherine of Braganza (1662-1665); Custos Rotulorum of Oxfordshire (1663-1689); Lord Chambrlain to the Queen (1665-1668, 1670-1675); High Steward of Reading (1674-?death), of Salisbury (1683-death), and of Oxford University (1686-death); Privy Councillor (1679, 1680-1689); Keeper of Denmark House; Treasurer and Receiver General of the Queen's Revenues (1680-1686); Governor of the New River Company (1682); Lord Privy Seal (1685-1687); Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1685-1687); Commissioner for Licensing Pedlars (1686-1687); defected to William III shortly after his arrival in England, but became a strict Non-Juror and was imprisoned in the Tower of London for plotting on behalf of James II (1690, 1691); on his release, retired to the country; died of asthma Membership: Fellow Election Date: 1/12/1684 Council: 1684.