Earl of Rochester

He had already been created Baron Wilmot, of Adderbury in the County of Oxford, in 1643, also in the Peerage of England.

He was a poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of satirical and bawdy poetry.

The second creation came in 1682 in favour of the statesman and writer the Honourable Laurence Hyde.

He was made Baron Wotton Basset and Viscount Hyde, of Kenilworth in the County of Warwick, at the same time, also in the Peerage of England.

On Lord Clarendon and Rochester's death in December of the same year all the titles became extinct.