Cyril Wyche

Cyril Wyche
Portrait of Sir Cyril Wyche
Portrait of Wyche c. 1700
Chief Secretary for Ireland
In office
1692–1693
Preceded byJohn Davis
Succeeded byRichard Aldworth
In office
1676–1682
Preceded byWilliam Harbord
Succeeded bySir William Ellis
5th President of the Royal Society
In office
1683 – 30 November 1684
Preceded byJohn Hoskyns
Succeeded bySamuel Pepys
Member of the English Parliament
1702 – 1705Preston
1685 – 1689Saltash
1681 – 1685East Grinstead
1661 – 1678Callington
Member of the Irish Parliament
for Dublin University
In office
1692–1693
Preceded bySir John Meade, 1st Baronet
Joseph Coghlan
Succeeded byRichard Aldworth
William Molyneux
Personal details
Born1632 (1632)
Constantinople, Turkey
Died28 December 1707(1707-12-28) (aged 74–75)
Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk
Resting placeSt Peter's Church, Hockwold
Spouses
Elizabeth Jermyn
(m. 1663)
Susanna Norreys
(m. 1684)
Mary Evelyn
(m. 1692)
Parents
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, MA, DCL)

Sir Cyril Wyche FRS (c. 1632 – 28 December 1707) was an English lawyer, politician and administrator. He served two terms in the Dublin Castle administration as Chief Secretary for Ireland and was a Lord Justice of Ireland from 1693 to 1695. He was the fifth President of the Royal Society, and represented several constituencies in both the House of Commons of England and the Irish House of Commons.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Wyche, Sir Cyril". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30117. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Henning, B.D. (1983). "WYCHE, Sir Cyril (c.1632-1707), of Gray's Inn, Westminster and Flanchford, Surr". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690. historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  3. ^ Rix, Herbert (1900). "Wyche, Cyril" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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