Edward Hyde Cornbury, lord, governor of New York, died in London, April 1, 1723. He was grandson of Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon, and eldest son of the second earl, and one of the first officers of his household troops to desert from the service of James II., his uncle by marriage, to the prince of Orange in 1688. In return for this service he was made governor of New York, where he arrived May 3, 1702. He was in debt, and was rapacious and bigoted to such a degree as to have left the reputation of being the worst governor ever appointed to the colony. When the yellow fever appeared in New York in 1703, he retired to Jamaica, L. L, and the best house in the place happening to belong to Mr. Hubbard, the Presbyterian minister, he requested to have it vacated for his accommodation. Instead of returning the house to the owner, he made it over to the Episcopal party. He imprisoned two ministers sent out from London for preaching in New York without license. Complaints being made, he was removed from office in 1708. His creditors had him taken into custody; but alter the death of his father he returned to England, and succeeded to the earldom of Clarendon.