e of
peace and progress.

He was succeeded as 5th earl by his eldest son, EDWARD HYDE VILLIERS (b.
1846), who became lord chamberlain in 1900.

See also the article (by Henry Reeve) in _Fraser's Magazine_, August
1876.

CLARENDON, HENRY HYDE, 2ND EARL OF (1638-1709), English statesman,
eldest son of the first earl, was born on the 2nd of June 1638. He
accompanied his parents into exile and assisted his father as
secretary, returning with them in 1660. In 1661 he was returned to
parliament for Wiltshire as Lord Cornbury. He became secretary in 1662
and lord chamberlain to the queen in 1665. He took no part in the life
of the court, and on the dismissal of his father became a vehement
opponent of the administration, defended his father in the impeachment,
and subsequently made effective attacks upon Buckingham and Arlington.
In 1674 he became earl of Clarendon by his father's death, and in 1679
was made a privy councillor. He was not included in Sir W. Temple's
council of that year, but was reappointed in 1680. In 1682 he supported
Halifax's proposal of declaring war on France. On the accession of James
in 1685 he was appointed lord privy seal, but shortly afterwards, in
September, was removed from this office to that of lord-lieutenant of
Ireland. Clarendon was embarrassed in his estate, and James required a
willing agent to carry out his design by upsetting the Protestant
government and the Act of Settlement. Clarendon arrived in Dublin on the
9th of January 1686. He found himself completely in the power of
Tyrconnel, the commander-in-chief; and though, like his father, a
staunch Protestant, elected this year high steward of Oxford University,
and detesting the king's policy, he obeyed his orders to introduce Roman
Catholics into the government and the army and upon the bench, and clung
to office till after the dismissal of his brother, the earl of
Rochester, in January 1687, when he was recalled and succeeded by
Tyrconnel. He now supported the church in its struggle with James,
opposed the Declaration of Indulgence, wrote to Mary an account of the
resistance of the bishops,[1] and visited and advised the latter in the
Tower. He had no share, however, in inviting William to England. He
assured James in September that the Church would be loyal, advised the
calling of the parliament, and on the desertion of his son, Lord
Cornbury, to William on the 14th of November, expressed to the king and
queen the most p