Background
HYDE, Clarendon Golding was born on February 5, 1858. Son of Henry Barry Hyde, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and Mary Anne, daughter of Golding Bird of Londonderry, Ireland.
HYDE, Clarendon Golding was born on February 5, 1858. Son of Henry Barry Hyde, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and Mary Anne, daughter of Golding Bird of Londonderry, Ireland.
Studied at Royal Institution School, Liverpool. King’s College, London.
He sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910, but his most significant public service was his participation in numerous government committees. Hyde was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool and at King"s College London, and was called to the bar in 1881 at the Middle Temple. He joined the Oxford Circuit, but soon gave up his law practice.
Hyde unsuccessfully contested Southampton at the 1906 general election.
However, he was defeated at the January 1910 general election. He was knighted in the King"s Birthday Honours in June 1910, and contested Cardiff Boroughs at the December 1910 general election, where the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament David Alfred Thomas had retired from politics.
The Times reported that "the result is remarkable". Before World War I he served on the Board of Trade"s Court of Arbitration in 1909, the Lace makers Trade Board, the Taxi Cab Inquiry and as chairman of the Cannock Chase Miner"s Minimum Wage Board.
During the war, he served on a long list of committees, mostly related to industrial policy.
In 1886 Hyde married Laura Adrie Palmer, daughter of Canon G. T. Palmer. They had one daughter. He died of pneumonia, aged 76, on 24 June 1934, at Longworth, Farringdon, Berkshire.
Liberal.
28th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected at the 1906 general election as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the borough Wednesbury in Staffordshire. However, both before and after his term in Parliament, Hyde"s was a member of a long range of government committees and other bodies.