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Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester NPG D11659

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Isaac Beckett, published by John Smith, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

An influential statesman who served under Charles II, James II, William III and Queen Anne. The son of statesman Edward Hyde, he entered Parliament in 1660 and was Master of the Robes from 1662 to 1675. In 1679, he was made First Lord of the Treasury and a Privy Councillor. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Hyde helped defeat Whig efforts (1678-81) to exclude from the succession the Catholic James, Duke of York (later King James II), whose... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.