Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon ( 1609 - 1674 )

Birth: Dinton, Wiltshire, England (18 February 1609) Death: Rouen, France (09 December 1674) Burial: Westminster Abbey, at the foot of the steps ascending to Henry VII's chapel Profession: Author Statesman Education: Magdalen Hall, Oxford; BA (1626); Middle Temple Career: Called to the Bar (1633); Keeper of the Writs and Rolls of Common Pleas (1634); MP for Wootton Bassett (1640); MP for Saltash (1641-1642); wrote nearly all the 'Declarations' issued by the King (1642-1645); Privy Councillor (1643); Chancellor of the Exchequer for the King (1643-1660); One of the Prince of Wales's Council (1645); accompanied the Prince of Wales to the Scilly Isles and Jersey and joined him at The Hague (1648); went to Spain to raise money for Charles II (1649-1650); Secretary of State to Charles II in Paris (1652-1654); negotiated the King's Restoration (1660); Lord Chancellor (1658-1667); Chancellor of Oxford University (1660-1667); High Steward of Cambridge (1660); Member of the Council for Foreign Plantations (1660); Ranger of Whichwood Forest (1661); High Steward of Norwich Cathedral (1661-1670); conducted the negotiations which led to the sale of Dunkirk (1662); High Steward of Salisbury (1662); one of the eight Lords Proprietors to whom the Carolina Charter was granted (1663); Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire (1663-1667), Wiltshire (1667); High Steward of Wodstock (1667); impeached and banished by the House of Commons (1667); spent the rest of his life in France, where he wrote his 'History of the Rebellion' and died of a stroke Honours: Kt 1643; Baron Hyde of Hindon 1660; Viscount Cornbury and Earl of Clarendon 1661 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 8/02/1665.