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Lawrence Hyde (attorney-general)

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Sir Lawrence Hyde II (1562 – 26 January 1641) was an English lawyer who was Attorney-general to the consort of King James I, Anne of Denmark. He sat in the House of Commons at various times between the years 1584 and 1611.

Origins

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Hyde was the second son of Lawrence Hyde I (d. 1590) of West Hatch, Wiltshire, MP for Heytesbury in 1584, by his second wife Anne Sibell, daughter of Nicholas Sibell of Farningham, Kent, and widow of Matthew Colthurst of Claverton, Somerset.[1] He was the brother of Henry Hyde (c. 1563–1634), MP, and Sir Nicholas Hyde (c. 1572–1631), Lord Chief Justice.

Career

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He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford in around 1579, aged 17 and was awarded BA on 9 March 1580.[2] He was elected Member of Parliament for Chippenham in 1586.[3] He lived at Heale House, Middle Woodford, near Salisbury and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1589.[2]

Hyde was elected MP for Heytesbury in 1597 and for Marlborough in 1601 and 1604.[3] In 1614, he became Attorney-general to Anne of Denmark, consort of King James I.[4] He was knighted on 27 November 1614. In 1616 he became treasurer of the Middle Temple.[2]

Marriage and children

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Hyde married Barbara Castillion or Castiglioni, daughter of the Italian tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, Gian-Baptista Castiglioni, in English John Castillion, of Benham, Berkshire, by whom he had 12 sons and 5 daughters.[5] Five of his sons rose to significant positions:

References

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  1. ^ History of Parliament biography of Lawrence I Hyde
  2. ^ a b c Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Hyde, (Sir) Laurence (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ a b Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  4. ^ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 549.
  5. ^ "History of Parliament". Retrieved 27 October 2011.