Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/East, (Sir) Edward (Hyde, Bart.)

by Joseph Foster

East, (Sir) Edward (Hyde, Bart.), s. Edward, of Isle of Jamaica, arm. Magdalen Coll., matric. 21 Feb., 1782, aged 17; bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1786, bencher 1823, chief justice Supreme Court and commissary of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Calcutta, M.P. Bedwyn Feb., 1792-4, Winchester Feb., 1823-33, knighted 26 Feb., 1813, created a baronet 25 April, 1823, died 8 Jan., 1847. See Foster's Baronetage.