Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (* November 28, 1661, † May 31 1723 in London) was from 1702 to 1708 Governor of New York and New Jersey.

Hyde was during his tenure extremely unpopular and maintained a lavish lifestyle that brought him to the end in the debtor's prison in New York. His political opponents kolportierten, he would be at night, but have been too formal occasions in women's clothes go. This seems to be rather slander but the truth in the light of current historical research. 1709 gave him an inheritance and the acquisition of the title as 3rd Earl of Clarendon to buy their way out of debt prison and return to England, where he was a member of the House of Lords.