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Robert Hyde may refer to:
- Robert Hyde (died 1642) (c. 1562–1642), MP for Great Bedwyn and Chippenham
- Robert Hyde (1650–1722), MP for Hindon 1677–79, 1685–87, and 1689–98, and Wiltshire 1702–27
- Robert Hyde (MP for Abingdon) (c. 1595 – at least 1638), MP for Abingdon 1621, Wootton Bassett 1625, and Cricklade 1626
- Robert Hyde (judge) (1595–1665), English judge
- Robert Hyde (footballer) (born 1954), Australian rules footballer
- Robert F. Hyde, American businessman, lobbyist, and political candidate
- Bob Hyde, a character in the 1978 film Coming Home
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First Reading
Paul G. Enterline • Link
"Sir Robert Hyde, first cousin of the great Earl of Clarendon, born 1595. He was a staunch Royalist, and immediately after the Restoration he was knighted and appointed a judge of the Common Pleas. On October 19th, 1663, he was promoted to the Chief Justiceship of the King's Bench. He died May 1st, 1665, and is buried in Saulsbury Cathedral." Vol VI, Wheatley ed., page 340, fn 1 (The Macmillan Co., 1893).
Second Reading
Bill • Link
HYDE, Sir ROBERT (1595-1665), chief-justice of the king's bench; nephew of Sir Nicholas Hyde or Hide; barrister, Middle Temple, 1617; serjeant-at-law, 1640; recorder of Salisbury, 1638-46, and M.P. in Long parliament; imprisoned, 1645; deprived of recordership, 1646; sheltered Charles II after Worcester (1651) at Heale; judge of common pleas, 1660; knighted: chief-justice of king's bench, 1663-5; died on the bench.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.