![]() ![]() Hyde wrote a great many books on a wide variety of subjects including "The Rise of Castlereagh" (1933) "The Quiet Canadian" (1962) "Cynthia" (1962) and "Secret Intelligence Agent" (1982). ![]() The marriage was dissolved in 1966 and he married Rosalind Roberts Dimond. In 1955, Hyde married his second wife Mary Eleanor Fischer. After losing his parliamentary seat, Hyde was Professor of History and Political Science at the University of the Punjab in Lahore (1959-61). From 1958-61 Hyde was an Honorary Colonel of the Intelligence Corps (Territorial Army), Northern Ireland. From 1950-59 he was a Unionist MP for East Belfast and was the UK Delegate to the Council of Europe Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg (1952-5). Hyde was the Assistant Editor of the Law Reports (1946-7), then Legal Adviser to the British Lion Film Corporation Ltd (1947-9). He was also Military Liaison and Security Officer, Bermuda (1940-41) Assistant Passport Control Officer, New York (1941-2) with British Army Staff, USA (1942-4) attached to the Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (1944) and then to the Allied Commission for Austria (1944-5). He served as an Assistant Censor in Gibraltar (1940) and was commissioned in the intelligence corps and engaged in counter-espionage work in the United States under Sir William Stephenson, Director of British Security Co-ordination in the Western Hemisphere (whose life Hyde published as "The Quiet Canadian" in 1962). In 1939 he married Dorothy Mabel Brayshaw Crofts (divorced 1952).ĭuring World War II, Hyde held several positions. From 1935-1939, Hyde was librarian and Private Secretary to the 7th Marquess of Londonderry. He was educated at Sedbergh School Queen's University, Belfast (where he gained a first class History degree) then at Magdalen College Oxford (where he gained a second class law degree). Harford Montgomery Hyde was born on 14 August 1907 in Belfast, the son of James Johnstone Hyde and Isobel Greenfield (née Montgomery). ![]()
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