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Deans of Winchester: Lawrence Humphrey, Zachary Pearce, Jonathan Shipley, Thomas Rennell, Michael Staffurth Stancliffe, Trevor Randall Beeson
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-01.
ISBN 9781155175447
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lawrence Humphrey, Zachary Pearce, Jonathan Shipley, Thomas Rennell, Michael Staffurth Stancliffe, Trevor Randall Beeson, William Holden Hutton, William Richard Wood Stephens, Thomas Garnier, James Edgar Atwell, William Mordaunt Furneaux, Robert Holmes, Alexander Hyde, Michael Stanley Till, Thomas Morton, Martin Heton, Dean of Winchester, George William Kitchin, Oswin Harvard Gibbs-Smith, Edward Gordon Selwyn, William Kingsmill. Excerpt: Alexander Hyde (1598 1667) was an English royalist clergyman, Bishop of Salisbury from 1665 to 1667. Life He was born at Salisbury in 1598, the fourth son of Sir Lawrence Hyde, knt. At the age of twelve (1610) Alexander entered Winchester College as a scholar, and matriculated 17 November 1615 at New College, Oxford . In 1617, he was admitted perpetual fellow there, and afterwards graduated B.C.L. 24 April 1623, and D.C.L. 4 July 1632. In 1634 he was made rector of Wylye and Little Langford, Wiltshire . In May 1637 Hyde became subdean and prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral , stall of South Grantham (4 March 1639). Like other members of his family he was a staunch royalist, and was sequestered from his livings under the Commonwealth, but reoccupied them at the Restoration . According to his epitaph he generously to the repairs of the Cathedral after its desecration by the soldiers of the parliament. By Clarendon 's influence he was at the Restoration rewarded by the deanery of Winchester (installed 8 August 1660), and on the death of John Earle in 1665 was promoted to the bishopric of Salisbury. He resigned the subdeanery of Salisbury in 1661, and his prebend there in 1665. His consecration took place 31 December 1665 in New College Chapel, Oxford. Hyde died in London, 22 August 1667, aged 69, and was buried in the south aisle of the nave of Sali
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