Miniature portrait, painted on hard paper or carton, from Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (28 November 1710–28 May 1753), styled Viscount Hyde from 1711 until 1723 and Viscount Cornbury thereafter, also 5th Baron Hyde in his own right, was a British author and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1732 until 1750. He was raised to the House of Lords by writ of acceleration. He was involved in Jacobite intrigues in the early 1730s. Hyde was the only surviving son of Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon, and his wife Jane Leveson-Gower, daughter of Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet, of Stittenham. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 21 May 1725, from which he received a DCL on 6 December 1728. He was an author of some talent, and both Swift and Pope praised his character. The portrait has no glass anymore and has some minor scratches in the paint.