Cyril Wyche

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Early life

He was born in Constantinople, then part of the Ottoman Empire, where his father, Sir Peter Wyche, was the English Ambassador. He was baptised by and named after Patriarch Cyril Lucaris, who became his godfather.<ref name="ODNB"/> Wyche was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1653. He received his Master of Arts (MA) in 1655 and his Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) in 1665.<ref name="HOP"/>

He entered Gray's Inn in 1657 and was eventually called to the bar in 1670.<ref name="HOP"/> In 1660, around the time of the Stuart Restoration, he was knighted by Charles II in The Hague, likely owing to the influence of his brother-in-law, the Earl of Bath. Shortly afterwards Wyche inherited a substantial fortune on the death of his mother, Jane Meredith, daughter of Sir William Meredith of Stansty.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Career

1661 to 1685

Wyche was first returned to parliament as the Member of Parliament for Callington in 1661, having been elected on the interest of John Coryton.<ref name="HOP"/> Between 1662 and 1675 he was one of the six clerks in Chancery, and by 1664 was listed as a firm supporter of the court faction. After resigning from the Chancery, he sold his inherited properties in Sussex and constructed a new, grand townhouse on Lord St Albans' development on St James's Square.<ref name="HOP"/>

In August 1676, Wyche was appointed secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Essex, on the recommendation of the Earl of Bath.<ref name="HOP"/> He remained in post under the new lord lieutenant, the Duke of Ormonde, the following year. His administrative abilities were highly valued by both lords lieutenant and Essex described Wyche as "a very discreet understanding man".<ref name="DIB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Upon becoming secretary he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland.<ref name="ODNB"/> He continued to contribute to parliamentary sessions in England during this period and was commissioned to examine Edward Colman in Newgate Prison during the Popish Plot in 1678.<ref name="HOP"/> Wyche declined to stand for re-election 1679, but two years later he was elected to represent East Grinstead on the interest of the Earl of Dorset. He attended the Oxford Parliament, during which he was likely an opponent of the Exclusion Bill.<ref name="HOP"/>

One of the original members of the Royal Society from 1663, between 1683 and 1684 he served as the society's fifth President.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> In 1684 he was elected a fellow of the Dublin Philosophical Society.<ref name="ODNB"/> Throughout this period he remained Ormonde's secretary for Irish affairs, but without a salary. Wyche complained to Ormonde that "I am the only man I think almost that ever was in my station without any salary from the crown", but the duke refused him a pension.<ref name="HOP"/>

1685 to 1705

Wyche lost his secretarial office with Ormonde's retirement on the accession of James II in 1685.<ref name="HOP"/> That year he was elected as the MP for Saltash. Despite his shock at the new king's ostentatious attendance at Roman Catholic mass, he continued to be a court supporter in parliamentary proceedings. Nonetheless, in 1688 he welcomed the Glorious Revolution and in 1690 he was appointed a gentleman of the Privy Chamber by William III.<ref name="ODNB"/>

In 1692 he again became involved in Irish affairs with his appointment as secretary to Viscount Sydney.<ref name="HOP"/> Wyche was elected to the Irish House of Commons as the MP for Dublin University in 1692 Irish parliament.<ref name="ODNB"/> In 1693 he played a leading role in the revival of the Dublin Society, serving as the society's president in that year. That year he was appointed one of three Lords Justices of Ireland following the removal of Sydney as lord lieutenant. Wyche, however, disagreed with his fellow Lord Justice, Lord Capell of Tewkesbury, over the correct policy for Ireland in relation to money bills. Capell, who had the backing of the Whig Junto in England, ensured that Wyche was removed from office in May 1695.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Returning to England, Wyche was rumoured to be under consideration for appointment as ambassador to Constantinople, but the appointment never materialised.<ref name="ODNB"/> He remained out of crown employment until June 1700, when he was made chairman of the trustees for the Irish forfeitures, and returned to Ireland until 1703. In 1702 he was elected to represent Preston, but was not re-elected in 1705.<ref name="HOP"/>

Personal life

He married three times; firstly in 1663, Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, with whom he had two sons (one of whom predeceased him) and two daughters; secondly in 1684 Susanna, the daughter of Sir Edward Norreys of Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire and the widow of Sir Herbert Perrott of Wellington; and thirdly in 1692 Mary, the daughter of George Evelyn of Wotton, Surrey.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="HOP"/> Mary was the niece of John Evelyn, the diarist.<ref name="DIB"/>

Around 1690 he purchased Hockwold Hall (then called The Poynings) at Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk. He died there on 28 December 1707 and a monument to him can be found in St Peter's Church, Hockwold. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Jermyn Wyche, whose inheritance was valued at over £100,000.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Further reading

• Sir Cyril Wyche and the Popish Plot, 1678-80, Hugh Fenning, O.P., in Seanchas Ard Macha volume 19/2, pp. 53–62, 2002

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