HYDE, Henry (brother of Edgar Hyde 1829–91). b. St. Giles, Camberwell 1825; ed. Addiscombe to 1844; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 7 June 1844; engaged in forming Cis-Sutlej states roads 1847; at siege of Mooltan and battle of Goojrat 1849; raised the Pathan companies of the sappers 1858; deputy consulting engineer railway department, N.W. provinces and Bengal 1859–60; inspector general of public works accounts, Bengal 1861; master of Calcutta mint Jany. 1862 to Jany. 1876, superintended paper currency department 1862–70; president Asiatic soc. Calcutta; inspector general of stores, India office, London 1876 to death; retired from royal engineers 17 Feb. 1878; hon. major general 17 Feb. 1878. d. Burntwood, Caterham, Surrey 23 Oct. 1887. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xci, 462–6 (1888).
HYDE, Rev. John. b. London 26 Feb. 1833; joined the Church of the Latter day saints 1849, preached Mormonism in France 1852, went to Salt Lake city 1853, lectured against Mormonism in the Sandwich islands and the United States of America and England 1855–6; bapt. by Dr. Jonathan Bayley in Argyle sq. ch. London and became a Swedenborgian 1858; minister at Brightlingsea 1859–61, at Derby 1861–6, and at Manchester 1866 to death; president of the New Jerusalem Church conference in London three times; author of Mormonism, its leaders and designs. New York 1857; Swedenborg, the man of the age 1859; The serpent that beguiled Eve 1862; The doctrine of substitution 1880, new ed. 1882; wrote under pseud. of A Bible Student Our eternal homes 1864, several editions; Bible Photographs, a contrast between righteousness and wickedness 1865 and other books. d. Milford, Derbyshire 18 Aug. 1875. Intellectual Repository, Oct. 1875 pp. 468–77; Publishers’ Circular 1 Sep. 1875 pp. 635–6; I.L.N. lxv, 229, 230 (1874), portrait.
HYDES, John P. Best known actor in New Zealand where he first appeared as Chizzler in the farce of But-However 23 April 1849; built Duke of Edinburgh theatre at Hokilika; held every position in the profession from checktaker to proprietor; great burlesque actor; appeared at Maguire’s opera house, San Francisco as Pauline in burlesque of Lady of Lyons 30 April 1859. d. Melbourne early in 1883.
HYETT, William Henry (eld. son of Rev. Henry Cay Adams of Shrewsbury, d. 1808). b. 2 Sep. 1795; ed. at Westminster, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1813; swam across the Hellespont from Sestos to Abydos in 1 hour and 50 minutes; assumed name of Hyett upon succeeding to estates of Benjamin Hyett 1815; M.P. Stroud 13 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834; made experiments on growth of trees by watering with chymical solutions; taught mechanical drawing in his schools at Painswick; founder of Gloucestershire eye institution 1866; made translations from Horace, Goethe, Victor Hugo and Filicaja which he privately printed; F.R.S. d. Painswick house, Gloucs. 10 March 1877. Times 13 March 1877 p. 10.
HYLAND, Most Rev. Thomas Raymond. b. Dublin 3 Nov. 1837; entered Dominican order at Tallaght, Feb. 1856; ordained priest in Rome 22 Dec. 1864; consecrated bishop of Euria, in partibus, in Rome 30 April 1882 and appointed coadjutor archbishop of Trinidad, West Indies. d. Trinidad 9 Oct. 1884.
HYLES, William (eld. son of Georges Hyles of Canute castle hotel, Southampton). b. 1843; proprietor of the York music hall, Southampton from its foundation 1873 to death. d. Royal York hotel, above Bar, Southampton 30 Aug. 1878.
HYLTON, William George Hylton Joliffe, 1 Baron (elder child of Rev. Wm. John Hylton of Merstham, Surrey d. 31 Jany. 1835). b. Little Argyle st. London 7 Dec. 1800; cornet 15 hussars 10 April 1817; captain 29 foot 22 April 1824 to 24 June 1824 when placed on h.p.; cr. baronet 20 Aug. 1821; M.P. Petersfield 1830–34, 1841–66; under sec. of state for home department March 1852 to Dec. 1852; parliamentary sec. to treasury March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 18 June 1859; whip to conservative party in house of commons; created baron Hylton of Hylton, co. Durham and of Petersfield, Hants. 16 July 1866. d. Merstham house, Redhill, Surrey 1 June 1876. I.L.N. xxxii 312 (1858) portrait, li 609, 610 (1867) portrait, lxviii 575 (1876).
HYMAN, Rev. Orlando Haydon Bridgman (1 son of Simon Hyman of Devonport). b. 1814; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar 1830–5, senior fellow 1835 to death; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1840; a well known Greek scholar; had a remarkably tenacious memory, tore up his books when he had read them. d. Porchester place, Oxford sq., London 9 Dec. 1878. Times 18 Dec. 1878 p. 11; N. and Q. 5 Series xi, 201–2 (1879).
HYMERS, Rev. John (son of a farmer). b. Ormsby in Cleveland, Yorkshire 20 July 1803; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 1822; 2 wrangler 1826, B.A. 1826, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1841; fellow of his coll. 1827, assistant tutor 1829, tutor 1832, senior fellow 1838–52, pres. 1848–52; lady Margaret preacher in Univ. of Cam. 1841–52; R. of Brandesburton in Holderness, Yorkshire 1852 to death; F.R.S. 31 May 1838; author of The theory of Equations 1837, 3 ed. 1858; The Integral Calculus 1844; A treatise on spherical trigonometry 1841 and other books; left nearly all his property to found a gram. sch. at Hull, but bequest invalid under statute of mortmain, his brother Robert Hymers gave £50,000 for same purpose Jany. 1891. d. Brandesburton 7 April 1887. F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds (1878) p. 84.
