Lawrence Hyde (died 1590)

[1] During the reign of King Henry VIII, he was a clerk in the auditor’s office of the Exchequer.

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he served as a commissioner for the surveying and suppression of chantries in Wiltshire and Salisbury in 1548.

He was elected MP for Malmesbury in 1559, Heytesbury in 1584 and possibly for Chippenham in 1586, which tenure may be confused with that of his son Lawrence II.

In 1549, for about £1,250, he purchased lands in Bymerton, Milton, a house in Salisbury and elsewhere in Wiltshire, and small properties in Somerset, Derbyshire and Kent.

His principal acquisitions included: Hyde married twice:[1] Hyde died on 7 June 1590 and was buried at Tisbury, where a monument survives and mentions his son Henry, the father of Lord Clarendon.