One of the twelve sons of Sir Lawrence Hyde of Salisbury, he was educated at Westminster School, and then elected in 1625 to Trinity College, Cambridge.
[1][2] Hyde was presented to the rectory of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, in Berkshire, but after 1645 the living was sequestered from him for "scandal in life and disaffection to the Parliament".
By an order of the parliamentary committee, dated 8 March 1649, he was granted a fifth of the annual value of the living for the support of his family, but his successor, John Ley, succeeded in obtaining a dispensation from this payment in 1652, on the ground that Hyde was possessed of lands and woods in Wiltshire, and that his wife's father was wealthy.
He studied in the Bodleian Library, and preached in Holywell church in the suburbs till silenced by adverse opinion.
In 1658 he obtained through the influence of his exiled kinsman Edward Hyde, letters patent for the deanery of Windsor, but died 16 August 1659 at Salisbury.