William Hayter

Who was William Hayter?

William Thomas Baring Hayter was an Anglican priest and teacher in the 20th century.

Hayter was the third son of Harrison Hayter and his wife Eliza Jane Walker. He was educated at Summer Fields School, Charterhouse School and Brasenose College, Oxford. After ordination he held curacies at Icklesham Sussex and Kensington. He became vicar of Hints, Staffordshire in 1888 and remained there until 1900 when he became vicar of Horsley, Yorkshire. He became vicar of Westbury, Wiltshire in 1904, and then of Honley and of Stratford Sub Castle in 1912.

In 1913 Hayter became Dean of Gibraltar where he stayed until 1920.

Returning to England in 1921 Hayter became vicar of Dorking, Surrey and in 1926 also became Rural Dean of Dorking.

In 1927, Hayter was appointed Master of his old school Charterhouse and Chaplain of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

Hayter retired to Penn, Buckinghamshire where he died at the age of 77.

Hayter married Maud Beauchamp, daughter of Sir Thomas Proctor Beauchamp of Langley Park, Norfolk in 1889. They had three daughters, of whom the eldest Dorothea married the Italian sculptor Romano Romanelli. Hayter's sister Frances married Falconer Madan, Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University