Robert Hyde (judge)
Appearance
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Sir Robert Hyde (1595–1665) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Early career
Hyde, who was born at his father's house, Heale,
King James I. Sir Robert Hyde's mother was the former Barbara Castillion of Benham, Berkshire. Alexander Hyde, Sir Henry Hyde, and Edward Hyde were his brothers; Edward, 1st Earl of Clarendon
, was his first cousin.
He was
Lent Reader there in 1638, and became a serjeant-at-law in May 1640. In the time of Lord Coke he attended as reporter in the King's Bench. He was recorder of Salisbury as early as 1638, when complaints were made against him for his remissness in collecting ship-money
.
Conduct during the Civil War and Protectorate
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Hyde represented
house. He was committed to the Tower from 4 to 18 Aug. 1645, and on 11 May 1646 was deprived of the recordership of Salisbury, He then retired into private life. In 1651 Charles II during his flight from Worcester
was sheltered for some days in his house at Heale. During the protectorate, he occasionally practised his profession, and his name occurs in the reports of Siderfin and Hardres.
Judicial career
At the Restoration he was knighted, and appointed a judge of the
Diary of Samuel Pepys
as "Cousin Roger", and who inclined to non-conformity, was bound over to be of good behaviour at the Cambridge Assizes in 1664 for speaking insultingly of Hyde at a town session.
He died suddenly on the bench on 1 May 1665, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral.
Private life
Hyde's wife was Mary, daughter of Francis Baber, M.D., of Chew Magna, Somerset, but he had no children. By the demise of his brother Lawrence he came into possession of the Heale estates in the Amesbury valley, and these, with his collection of heirlooms, he settled on the issue of his brother Alexander, Bishop of Salisbury.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Hyde, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.