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* HYDE. 363 HYDE PARK. ried to him in September. Her father disap- proved of the affair with great ostentation, and afterwards, with more sincerity perhaps, at- tributed his downfall to the match. At first the royal family would not recognize her, and fruit- less attempts were made, by attacking her char- . acter, to influence the Prince to put her aside. Although they were more or less prone to quarrel, Anne even being accused of poisoning one of her husband's mistresses, she influenced him for good in many ways. She was an accomplished and attractive woman, though not by any means handsome, and she maintained her position with regal dignity. She joined the Roman Catholic Church soon after 1667, and converted her hus- band to that faith. Her daughters, however, were educated as Protestants. Anne and Marj', who became Queens of England, were her only children that lived beyond infancy. HYDE, DocGLAS (I860—). An Irish scholar and writer, son of the Rev. Arthur Hyde of Frenchpark, County Roscommon. He was edu- cated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1891 he was interim professor of modern languages in the State University of New Brunswick, and he was afterwards made examiner in Celtic to the Royal University of Ireland. Hyde early took up the study of Irish litera- ture, and in particular the collection and publica- tion of Gaelic songs and folk-tales, and his laliors in the preservation of native folk-lore constitute his most valuable services to Celtic scholarship. His Literary History of Ireland is noteworthy as being really the first attempt to Avrite a compre- hensive and systematic history of Gaelic litera- ture. He is a skillful writer of prose and verse in both English and Gaelic, and under his as- sumed name, 'An Craoibhin Aoibhinn,' he is well known among the Irish-speaking people. His translations of modem G.ielic lyrics are often particularly happy in rendering at once the simple feeling and the complicated metrical struc- ture of the native poetry. He took a prominent part in the organization of the popular move- ment for the preseri'ation of the Irish language. He was made president of the Gaelic League (q.v.) in 1895, and of the Irish Text Society at its foundation. In 1894-95 he was president of the Irish National Literary Society. He wa.s also made a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His principal works are the following: Leabhnr Egeuluifilieachta (1889); Cois na Teineadh: or Beside the Fire (1891) ; Love Sonqs of Connaunht (1894); The Three Sorrows of Storti-TeUino (1895); The Sioni of EarUi Irish Literature (1897); An SgextUiidhe Gaodhalach (1898-99); A Literary History of Ireland (1899) ; The Lad of the Ferule, etc. (vol. i. of the publications of the Irish Texts Society. Dublin, 1899) ; and Vhhia de'n Chraoihh (1900). Part of his Songs of Connaught were contributed to the Dublin Vatioti. In the same way his edition of the Poems of liaftery has been published in the Dub- hn Weelly Freeman. HYDE, Enw.RD. See Ciabejtdon, Edward Hyde. Karl of. HYDE, Edward (c.1650-1712). A Colonial Governor of North Carolina. He was appointed by the proprietors to he Governor of the Albe- marle District in the Province of North Carolina, but on his arrival in August. 1710. found that the Governor of the Province, from whom he was Vol. X.— 24. to receive his commission, had died, and that a former Deputy Governor, Ihomas Carey, was lead- ing an insurrection. A number of the more re- spectable residents requested Hyde to assume the office of Governor, which he did, and with the aid of Governor Spottswood of Virginia suc- ceeded in putting down Carey's rebellion. Soon after, however, the North Carolina Indians, led by the Tuscaroras, went on the warpath and massacred many of the settlers. Hyde called on the neighboring Colonies of South Carolina and Virginia for aid, and on January 28, 1712, a body of South Carolina and North" Carolina militia under Colonel Barnwell defeated the Indians on the Neuse River, about twenty miles from New- bem. Before these Indian troubles were settled Governor Hyde died, during an epidemic of yel- low fever. HYDE, Thomas (1636-1703). An English Orientalist, born at Billingsley in Shropshire. Educated at Cambridge, he was an assistant to Walton in an edition of his Polyglot Bible. Besides correcting the Arabic, Syriac, and Per- sian texts, he transcribed in Persian characters the Persian translation of the Pentateuch which had been printed in Hebrew letters at Constanti- nople, and appended a Latin version of his ovn. In 1658 Hyde entered Queen's College, Oxford, to which he was shortly after made Hebrew reader. In the following year, after graduating as M.A., he was chosen under-keeper and finally librarian- in-chief of the Bodleian Library. In 1660 he was )nade a canon of Salisbury; in 1678 archdeacon of Gloucester. He succeeded Pococke in 1691 as Laudian professor of Arabic; and soon after, on the deprivation of Altham, became regius professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church. Worn out by his unremitting labors, he resigned his librarianship in 1701, and died at Oxford. Hyde's most important work was the Bistoria Re- ligionis Veterum Persarum eorumque Magorum (1700; 2d ed. 1760). A number of other works were collected and published in 1767 under the title Syntagma Dissertationum et Opuscula. HYDE PARK. An inelosure of nearly 400 acres in London. England, about two and one- quarter miles west of Saint Paul's Cathedral ( Map : London, E 6 ) . It derives its name from Hyde Manor, which belonged to the Abbey of Westminster. It became the property of" the Crown on the dissolution of the monasteries, in the reign of Henry VIII. Ben Jonson speaks of the show of coaches which it presented in his time; and it was constantly resorted to on the morning of May Day for the sports compre- hended under the term Maying. In the seven- teenth century it contained deer; races, military reviews, and duels were held there. After the Restoration it became the favorite drive and promenade which it has ever sinoe continued to be. It also sen-es as the place of large popular meetings. It has nine carriage entrances, and among its prominent features are: the Serpen- tine, an artificial sheet of water constructed by order of Queen Caroline in 1730. Rotten Row, the Ladies' Mile, the Marble Arch, the Hyde Park corner gateway, and the colossal statue of Achilles, erected in honor of the Duke of Wellington. HYDE PARK. A town in Norfolk County, Ma.ss.. including the villages of Readville. Claren- don Hills, Hazlewood, and Fairmount; eight