Letter 0968

Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon to Hans Sloane – December 16, 1704


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Date: December 16, 1704
Author: Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 406



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Hyde encloses a present for Sloane. Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, was a politician who served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under James II. He went into self-imposed exile to avoid arrest after falling on the wrong side of the Glorious Revolution (1688), but returned to parliamentary politics in the 1690s (W. A. Speck, Hyde, Henry, second earl of Clarendon (16381709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14329, accessed 9 July 2013]).




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