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John Hyde de Neuville was born on the 24th January 1776, at La Charité-sur-Loire, of a family of English immigrants, from whom he inherited that unflinching Royalism which characterised his whole life. His grandfather was one of the Jacobites who followed the Stuarts into exile, after the battle of Culloden, in 1746. Sir James Hyde, with his son, who was then only