 Edward Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon and also Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1660-1667, wrote a famous and highly profitable work, "History of the Great Rebellion" about the English Civil War of the 17th century.The profits of his book were used to construct the University-owned Clarendon Building on Broad Street in central Oxford.The Clarendon Building was designed to house Oxford University Press (OUP), and so the Clarendon Fund was named in honour of this famous building and its historic linkages to OUP, the main benefactor of the Clarendon Scholarships.