he would often say something quite unforgivable, and after a series of such quarrels, the Queen dismissed him from office early in 1703. The concluding years of his public life were mainly passed in championing the interests of the Church. In 1710 he was again made Lord President of the council, and in the final year of his life was generally seen as a mature and moderate statesman. He died on 2 May 1711 and was buried on 10 May 1711 at the foot of the steps leading up to the King Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey. On his death, he was succeeded by his only son, Henry (1672–1753), who in 1724 inherited the earldom of Clarendon. When Henry died without issue on 10 December 1753, all his titles became extinct. Family In 1665, he married Lady Henrietta Boyle (died 1687), daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington and Cork and Lady Elizabeth Clifford. They had four children: Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1672–1753) Anne (died 1685), who married James, Earl of Ossory. In her will, she left property in White's Alley, Coleman Street, Beaconsfield, to be used to maintain her tomb and to benefit local widows and orphans. Mary (died 1709), who married Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway Henrietta (c.1677–1730), who married James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith. Laurence was an affectionate father: Anne, Countess of Ossory, was his favourite child, and her early death in 1685 following a miscarriage was a blow from which some thought he never fully recovered. Anne was noted for wit and charm, as was her younger sister Henrietta, Countess of Dalkeith. John Evelyn called Henrietta "the wittiest of her sex"; other friends said that she retained the charm of youth even when she was well over fifty. When his father was impeached in 1667, Laurence joined his elder brother, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, in defending him in Parliament, but the fall of Clarendon did not injuriously affect the fortunes of his sons. They were united with the royal family through the marriage of their sister, Anne, with the future King James II, making her Duchess of York. In 1676, Laurence Hyde was sent as ambassador to Poland; he then travelled to Vienna, whence he proceeded to Nijmwegen to take part in the peace congress as one of the English representatives. Literature Laurence Hyde had some learning and a share