His father inherited Hyde End Manor, the family seat and a 1,500-acre estate in Berkshire,[1][2] where he grew up with five brothers.

[2] In the late 1870s, he purchased a villa[1] or the former Santa Teresa monastery at Anacapri on the island of Capri, where he made portraits of local model Rosina Ferrara and became a friend of John Singer Sargent.

[2] An exhibit about the war, "Coming Home: Conflict & Care", at Maidstone Museum has shown three of his paintings, including Arrival of a Convoy of Wounded Soldiers at Maidstone East and Trones Wood, about the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

[11] In November 1876, Hyde was married to Constance Mary Louise Felgate, who died within a year.

In a year, they had a daughter named Mina and in 1884 had a son, Francis Angerstein Clarendon Rowley-Hyde.