Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman, (1824).Artist: J Thomson

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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman, (1824). Hyde (1609-1674) was Chancellor of the Exchequer to King Charles I, and author of the Clarendon Code, designed to preserve the supremacy of the Church of England. On the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, he returned with Charles II. However he was banished in 1667, and spent the rest of his life in exile in France.

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