(glycoluric)acid, H2N·CO·NH·CH2·CO2H, which is readily soluble in hot water, and on heating with hydriodic acid decomposes into ammonia, carbon dioxide and glycocoll, CH2·NH2·CO2·H. Many substituted hydantoins are known; the α-alkyl hydantoins are formed on fusion of aldehyde- or ketone-cyanhydrins with urea, the β-alkyl hydantoins from the fusion of mono-alkyl glycocolls with urea, and the γ-alkyl hydantoins from the action of alkalis and alkyl iodides on the α-compounds. γ-Methyl hydantoin has been obtained as a splitting product of caffeine (E. Fischer, Ann., 1882, 215, p. 253).
HYDE, the name of an English family distinguished in the
17th century. Robert Hyde of Norbury, Cheshire, had several
sons, of whom the third was Lawrence Hyde of Gussage St
Michael, Dorsetshire. Lawrence’s son Henry was father of
Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon (q.v.), whose second son by his
second wife was Lawrence, earl of Rochester (q.v.); another son
was Sir Lawrence Hyde, attorney-general to Anne of Denmark,
James I.’s consort; and a third son was Sir Nicholas Hyde
(d. 1631), chief-justice of England. Sir Nicholas entered parliament
in 1601 and soon became prominent as an opponent of the
court, though he does not appear to have distinguished himself
in the law. Before long, however, he deserted the popular
party, and in 1626 he was employed by the duke of Buckingham
in his defence to impeachment by the Commons; and in the
following year he was appointed chief-justice of the king’s bench,
in which office it fell to him to give judgment in the celebrated
case of Sir Thomas Darnell and others who had been committed
to prison on warrants signed by members of the privy council,
which contained no statement of the nature of the charge against
the prisoners. In answer to the writ of habeas corpus the attorney-general
relied on the prerogative of the crown, supported by
a precedent of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Hyde, three other
judges concurring, decided in favour of the crown, but without
going so far as to declare the right of the crown to refuse indefinitely
to show cause against the discharge of the prisoners.
In 1629 Hyde was one of the judges who condemned Eliot,
Holles and Valentine for conspiracy in parliament to resist the
king’s orders; refusing to admit their plea that they could not
be called upon to answer out of parliament for acts done in
parliament. Sir Nicholas Hyde died in August 1631.
Sir Lawrence Hyde, attorney-general to Anne of Denmark, had eleven sons, four of whom were men of some mark. Henry was an ardent royalist who accompanied Charles II. to the continent, and returning to England was beheaded in 1650; Alexander (1598–1667) became bishop of Salisbury in 1665; Edward (1607–1659) was a royalist divine who was nominated dean of Windsor in 1658, but died before taking up the appointment, and who was the author of many controversial works in Anglican theology; and Robert (1595–1665) became recorder of Salisbury and represented that borough in the Long Parliament, in which he professed royalist principles, voting against the attainder of Strafford. Having been imprisoned and deprived of his recordership by the parliament in 1645/6, Robert Hyde gave refuge to Charles II. on his flight from Worcester in 1651, and on the Restoration he was knighted and made a judge of the common pleas. He died in 1665. Henry Hyde (1672–1753), only son of Lawrence, earl of Rochester, became 4th earl of Clarendon and 2nd earl of Rochester, both of which titles became extinct at his death. He was in no way distinguished, but his wife Jane Hyde, countess of Clarendon and Rochester (d. 1725), was a famous beauty celebrated by the homage of Swift, Prior and Pope, and by the groundless scandal of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Two of her daughters, Jane, countess of Essex, and Catherine, duchess of Queensberry, were also famous beauties of the reign of Queen Anne. Her son, Henry Hyde (1710–1753), known as Viscount Cornbury, was a Tory and Jacobite member of parliament, and an intimate friend of Bolingbroke, who addressed to him his Letters on the Study and Use of History, and On the Spirit of Patriotism. In 1750 Lord Cornbury was created Baron Hyde of Hindon, but, as he predeceased his father, this title reverted to the latter and became extinct at his death. Lord Cornbury was celebrated as a wit and a conversationalist. By his will he bequeathed the papers of his great-grandfather, Lord Clarendon, the historian, to the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
See Lord Clarendon, The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon (3 vols., Oxford, 1827); Edward Foss, The Judges of England (London, 1848–1864); Anthony à Wood, Athenae oxonienses (London, 1813–1820); Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence, edited by Lord Braybrooke (4 vols., London, 1854).
HYDE, THOMAS (1636–1703), English Orientalist, was born
at Billingsley, near Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, on the 29th of
June 1636. He inherited his taste for linguistic studies, and
received his first lessons in some of the Eastern tongues, from
his father, who was rector of the parish. In his sixteenth year
Hyde entered King’s College, Cambridge, where, under Wheelock,
professor of Arabic, he made rapid progress in Oriental languages,
so that, after only one year of residence, he was invited to London
to assist Brian Walton in his edition of the Polyglott Bible.
Besides correcting the Arabic, Persic and Syriac texts for that
work, Hyde transcribed into Persic characters the Persian
translation of the Pentateuch, which had been printed in Hebrew
letters at Constantinople in 1546. To this work, which Archbishop
Ussher had thought well-nigh impossible even for a
native of Persia, Hyde appended the Latin version which accompanies
it in the Polyglott. In 1658 he was chosen Hebrew reader
at Queen’s College, Oxford, and in 1659, in consideration of his
erudition in Oriental tongues, he was admitted to the degree of
M.A. In the same year he was appointed under-keeper of the
Bodleian Library, and in 1665 librarian-in-chief. Next year he
was collated to a prebend at Salisbury, and in 1673 to the archdeaconry
of Gloucester, receiving the degree of D.D. shortly
afterwards. In 1691 the death of Edward Pococke opened up to
Hyde the Laudian professorship of Arabic; and in 1697, on the
deprivation of Roger Altham, he succeeded to the regius chair
of Hebrew and a canonry of Christ Church. Under Charles II.,
James II. and William III. Hyde discharged the duties of
Eastern interpreter to the court. Worn out by his unremitting
labours, he resigned his librarianship in 1701, and died at Oxford
on the 18th of February 1703. Hyde, who was one of the first
to direct attention to the vast treasures of Oriental antiquity,
was an excellent classical scholar, and there was hardly an Eastern
tongue accessible to foreigners with which he was not familiar.
He had even acquired Chinese, while his writings are the best
testimony to his mastery of Turkish, Arabic, Syriac, Persian,
Hebrew and Malay.
In his chief work, Historia religionis veterum Persarum (1700), he made the first attempt to correct from Oriental sources the errors of the Greek and Roman historians who had described the religion of the ancient Persians. His other writings and translations comprise Tabulae longitudinum et latitudinum stellarum fixarum ex observatione principis Ulugh Beighi (1665), to which his notes have given additional value; Quatuor evangelia et acta apostolorum lingua Malaica, caracteribus Europaeis (1677); Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus serum sive sinensium (1688), appended to Bernard’s De mensuris et ponderibus antiquis; Abraham Peritsol itinera mundi (1691); and De ludis orientalibus libri II. (1694).
With the exception of the Historia religionis, which was republished by Hunt and Costard in 1760, the writings of Hyde, including some unpublished MSS., were collected and printed by Dr Gregory Sharpe in 1767 under the title Syntagma dissertationum quas olim . . . Thomas Hyde separatim edidit. There is a life of the author prefixed. Hyde also published a catalogue of the Bodleian Library in 1674.
HYDE, a market town and municipal borough in the Hyde
parliamentary division of Cheshire, England, 712 m. E. of Manchester,
by the Great Central railway. Pop. (1901) 32,766.
It lies in the densely populated district in the north-east of the
county, on the river Tame, which here forms the boundary of
Cheshire with Lancashire. To the east the outlying hills of the
Peak district of Derbyshire rise abruptly. The town has cotton
weaving factories, spinning mills, print-works, iron foundries
and machine works; also manufactures of hats and margarine.
There are extensive coal mines in the vicinity. Hyde is wholly
of modern growth, though it contains a few ancient houses, such
