Robert Hyde (10 October 1650 – 1722) of
Hindon, Wiltshire
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and Heale,
Woodford, Wiltshire, was an English politician who sat in the
English House of Commons
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between 1677 and 1707 and in the
British House of Commons
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from 1708 to 1722.
Hyde was the second (and eldest surviving) son of
Alexander Hyde, who was
Bishop of Salisbury
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from 1665 to 1667, and his wife Mary Townson, daughter of Robert Townson, who was Bishop of Salisbury from 1620 to 1621. He succeeded to the estates of his uncle
Sir Robert Hyde in 1665 and to his father's in 1667. He matriculated at
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
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, in 1666 and was admitted at the
Middle Temple
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in 1667. In 1673 he was
called to the bar
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.
He married Lady Finetta Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe, on 4 May 1674. She died on 16 October 1700 and Hyde married again to Arundell Penruddock, daughter of Thomas Penruddock, MP of Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, on 26 January 1704.
Hyde was returned as a
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Hindon in 1677 and sat until 1679. He was returned as MP again in 1685
[ and in succeeding general elections until 1698. He was returned as MP for ]Wiltshire
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in 1702 and again in the general elections of 1708
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, 1710
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, 1713
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, 1715
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and 1722
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when he was too infirm to attend the poll.
Hyde died on 20 April 1722.
References
1650 births
1722 deaths
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