Hyde Hall, Cheshire

Edward Hyde (1667-1712), the first colonial Lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina, died without an immediate heir in 1712 and his family's 17th century ancestral estate was left to his only surviving daughter, Anne Hyde (1693-1760). Anne was the wife of The Hon. George Clarke (1676-1760), formerly of Swanswick and the colonial Lieutenant-Governor of New York who built Hyde Hall in Cooperstown, New York. The Clarkes retired to Anne's ancestral home and there is a splendid marble monument to John Clarke's memory at Chester Cathedral.