Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP (18 February 1609 – 9 December 1674) was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II from 1660 to 1667.

Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alter ego, Mr. Edward Hyde, is the central character of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In the story, he is a good friend of main protagonist Gabriel John Utterson.

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon was an English statesman and historian, minister to Charles I and Charles II and author of the History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Edward Hyde was the eldest surviving son of Henry Hyde of Dinton, Wiltshire.

Doctor Henry Jekyll, also known as Edward Hyde, is the titular main antagonist of the 1886 gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by the late Robert Louis Stevenson. Over the course of the novel, Jekyll transforms into Hyde in order to keep his good and evil personalities separate, only to find himself addicted to the potion as ...

Hyde’s position as the fulcrum of the king’s administration in exile would translate naturally into a role as effective chief minister of the royal government as soon as the king landed, with Hyde in attendance, at Dover on 25 May.

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon, (born Feb. 18, 1609, Dinton, Wiltshire, Eng.—died Dec. 9, 1674, Rouen, France.), English statesman and historian. A successful lawyer, he was also well known in literary circles.

In the 2004 film Stage Beauty, starring Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, Clarendon (again referred to simply as Edward Hyde) is played by Edward Fox. In fiction, Clarendon is a minor character in An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears and in Act of Oblivion (2022) by Robert Harris.

The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and former advisor to Charles I and Charles II, is his account of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Originally published between 1702 and 1704 as The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England , it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered.

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, who was knighted in 1643 and raised to the peerage in 1661, enjoyed some of the highest political offices in the realm, was trusted adviser to both Charles I and Charles II and was author of the celebrated History of the Rebellion. His papers, the majority concerning matters of state, have survived in ...

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon primary name: Clarendon other name: Hyde, Edward