Biography of Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon 1661-1723

In 1660 [his father] Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Clarendon and [his mother] Theodosia Capell were married. She died a year later. He the son of [his grandfather] Edward Hyde 1st Earl Clarendon [aged 50] and [his grandmother] Frances Aylesbury Countess Clarendon [aged 42].

On 28th November 1661 Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon was born to [his father] Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Clarendon and [his mother] Theodosia Capell.

On or after 28th November 1661 [his mother] Theodosia Capell died.

John Evelyn's Diary. 8th May 1667. Made up accounts with our Receiver, which amounted to £33,936 1s. 4d. Dined at Lord Cornbury's [aged 5], with Don Francisco de Melos, Portugal Ambassador, and kindred to the Queen [aged 28]: Of the party were Mr. Henry Jermyn [aged 62] and Sir [his uncle] Henry Capel [aged 29]. Afterward I went to Arundel House [Map], to salute Mr. Howard's sons, newly returned out of France.

On 19th October 1670 Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Clarendon and Flower Backhouse Countess Clarendon were married. She being the sole heir of her father William Backhouse brought Swallowfield House, Berkshire to the marriage which Henry had rebuilt. He the son of Edward Hyde 1st Earl Clarendon [aged 61] and Frances Aylesbury Countess Clarendon.

John Evelyn's Diary. 10th June 1673. Came to visit and dine with me my Lord Viscount Cornbury [aged 11] and his [his future wife] Lady [aged 10]; Lady [his aunt] Frances Hyde, sister to the Duchess of York; and Mrs. Dorothy Howard [aged 22], Maid of Honour [Note. Dorothy Howard and Colonel James Graham [aged 24] were married in 1675 - may be an example of Evelyn writing his diary retrospectively she being referred to as 'Mrs' although possibly the term was used irrecspective of marriage - see John Evelyn's Diary 9th October 1671]. We went, after dinner, to see the formal and formidable camp on Blackheath, Greenwich [Map], raised to invade Holland; or, as others suspected for another design. Thence, to the Italian glass-house at Greenwich, Kent [Map], where glass was blown of finer metal than that of Murano [Map], at Venice.

On 9th December 1674 [his grandfather] Edward Hyde 1st Earl Clarendon [aged 65] died at Rouen, France [Map]. His son [his father] Henry succeeded 2nd Earl Clarendon, 2nd Baron Hyde of Hindon in Wiltshire 1660. [his step-mother] Flower Backhouse Countess Clarendon by marriage Countess Clarendon.

On 10th July 1685 Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon [aged 23] and Katherine O'Brien [aged 22] were married. He the son of Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Clarendon and Theodosia Capell. They were fifth cousins.

John Evelyn's Diary. 27th October 1685. I was invited to dine at Sir Ste. Fox's [aged 58] with my [his father] Lord Lieutenant, where was such a dinner for variety of all things as I had seldome seene, and it was so for the trial of a master cooke whom Sir Stephen had recommended to go with his Lordship Into Ireland; there were all ye dainties not onely of the season, but of what art could add, venison, plaine solid meate, fowle, bak'd and boil'd meates, banquet [desert], &c. in exceeding plenty and exquisitely dress'd. There also din'd my Lord Ossory [aged 20] and Lady (the Duke of Beaufort's daughter) [aged 21], my Lady Treasurer, Lord Cornbery [aged 23], &c.

John Evelyn's Diary. 15th August 1687. I went to visit [his father] Lord Clarendon at Swallowfield, where was my Lord Cornbury [aged 25] just arrived from Denmark, whither he had accompanied the Prince of Denmark [aged 34] two months before, and now come back. The miserable tyranny under which that nation lives, he related to us; the King keeps them under an army of 40,000 men, all Germans, he not daring to trust his own subjects. Notwithstanding this, the Danes are exceedingly proud, the country very poor and miserable.

On 9th November 1695 [his daughter] Theodosia Hyde was born to Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon [aged 33] and [his wife] Katherine O'Brien [aged 32]. She married August 1713 John Bligh 1st Earl Darnley and had issue.

In 1697 [his daughter] Mary Hyde died.

In 1702 Katherine Stewart [aged 62] died. Her fourth cousin [his wife] Katherine [aged 38] succeeded 8th Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.

On 11th August 1706 [his wife] Katherine O'Brien [aged 43] died at New York. She was buried at Trinity Church, New York. Her son Edward succeeded 9th Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.

On 31st October 1709 [his father] Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Clarendon died. His son Edward [aged 47] succeeded 3rd Earl Clarendon, 3rd Baron Hyde of Hindon in Wiltshire 1660.

In February 1713 [his son] Edward Hyde 9th Baron Clifton died. His sister [his daughter] Theodosia [aged 17] succeeded 10th Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.

In August 1713 [his son-in-law] John Bligh 1st Earl Darnley [aged 26] and Theodosia Hyde [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon [aged 51] and Katherine O'Brien.

On 30th July 1722 [his daughter] Theodosia Hyde [aged 26] died in childbirth. Her son [his grandson] Edward [aged 7] succeeded 11th Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire.

On 31st March 1723 Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon [aged 61] died. His first cousin Henry [aged 50] succeeded 4th Earl Clarendon, 4th Baron Hyde of Hindon in Wiltshire 1660. Jane Leveson-Gower Countess Rochester and Clarendon by marriage Countess Clarendon.

[his daughter] Catherine Hyde was born to Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon and Katherine O'Brien.

[his son] Edward Hyde 9th Baron Clifton was born to Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon and Katherine O'Brien.

[his daughter] Mary Hyde was born to Edward Hyde 3rd Earl Clarendon and Katherine O'Brien.