French invasion of Naples in 1806 Hayter retired to Palermo. The original papyri were detained by the Neapolitan government, and fell into the hands of the French. The lead-pencil facsimiles also passed out of Hayter's hands, but were at last recovered from the Neapolitan authorities through the influence of Sir W. Drummond, the British minister. At Palermo Hayter occupied himself in superintending the engraving of the ‘Carmen Latinum,’ the ‘Περὶ Θανάτου,’ and some specimen alphabets. In 1809 he was recalled to England by the Prince of Wales. Hayter's lead-pencil facsimiles and the engravings made at Palermo were presented by the prince in 1810 to the university of Oxford. In 1811 a university committee arranged for an edition by Hayter of the ‘Carmen Latinum’ and the ‘Περὶ Θανάτου,’ but nothing was done and Hayter went abroad. The appendix to W. Scott's ‘Fragmenta Herculanensia’ contains reproductions of the copper-plates engraved from Hayter's lead-pencil facsimiles for Hayter's intended edition. Hayter died at Paris from apoplexy on 29 Nov. 1818, in his sixty-third year. The ‘Extraordinary Red Book’ (Gent. Mag. 1819, pt. i. p. 179) has an entry under 7 Nov. 1797 of a contingent pension to ‘Elizabeth and Sophia Hayter, to commence on the death of the Rev. John Hayter.’ Hayter published: 1. ‘The Herculanean and Pompeian Manuscripts’ [London?], 1800, 8vo. 2. ‘The Herculanean Manuscripts,’ 2nd edit. London, 1810. 3. ‘Observations upon a Review of the “Herculanensia” in the “Quarterly Review,”’ London, 1810, 4to. 4. ‘A Report upon the Herculanean Manuscripts,’ London, 1811, 4to (Nos. 1, 2, 3 are published as ‘Letters’ to the Prince of Wales). Some of Hayter's papers, labelled ‘Herculaneum papers relating to my employment,’ are bound in a volume in the Bodleian Library.
[Gent. Mag. 1818 pt. ii. p. 631, 1819 pt. i. p. 179; Hayter's publications; W. Scott's Fragmenta Herculanensia, 1885, p. 2 ff.; Quarterly Review, February 1810, p. 1 ff.]
HAYTER, RICHARD (1611?–1684), theological writer, born about 1611, was the son of William Hayter, fishmonger, of Salisbury, Wiltshire. In 1628 he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, as a commoner, and graduated B.A. 26 April 1632, and M.A. 29 Jan. 1634 (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 464, 474). He returned to Salisbury, lived there as a layman, and wrote ‘The Meaning of Revelation: or, a Paraphrase with Questions on the Revelation of St. John, in which the Synchronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the Expositions of other Interpreters, are called into question,’ 4to, London, 1675 (another edition, 8vo, London, 1676). In April 1683 he had ready for the press ‘Errata Mori. The Errors of Henry More contained in his Epilogue annex'd to his Exposition of the Revelation of St. John,’ &c., together with another book; but neither appears to have been printed (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 138). Hayter died on 30 June 1684, and was buried in the church of St. Thomas, Salisbury.
[Hatcher's Salisbury (in Hoare's Wiltshire), p. 628.]
HAYTER, THOMAS (1702–1762), bishop successively of Norwich and London, baptised at Chagford, Devonshire, 17 Nov. 1702, was eldest son (of ten children) of George Hayter, rector of Chagford, who was buried there on 9 Oct. 1728, by his wife Grace, who died on 22 March 1760. The Hayter family purchased the advowson of Chagford in 1637, and the living has been held by descendants in unbroken succession for more than two centuries. Thomas was educated at Blundell's school, Tiverton. With the aid of a temporary exhibition, awarded to him by the feoffees in 1720, he matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, on 30 May 1720, and graduated B.A. on 21 Jan. 1724. He subsequently became a member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees of M.A. (1727) and D.D. (1744). Some time in 1724 he quitted Oxford to become private chaplain to Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne [q. v.] of York. His friend John Burton (1696–1771) [q. v.] sent him a long valedictory epistle in Latin (Burton, Opuscula Miscell. 1771, pp. 309–12). The archbishop secured for Hayter much preferment. He held the prebendal stall of Riccall in York Cathedral from 31 Dec. 1728 to 1736, when he was advanced to the stall of Strensall. In the same year (1728) he was appointed to the prebend of North Muskham in Southwell minster, became subdean of York on 26 Nov. 1730, and was installed prebendary of Westminster on 12 Feb. 1739. The last four preferments he retained until his elevation to the episcopal bench. He was archdeacon of York or West Riding from 26 Nov. 1730 to 1751. When the archbishop died in 1743 Hayter was one of his executors and one of the three residuary legatees to the estate. Scandal asserted that Hayter was Blackburne's natural son, and as late as 1780 Walpole spoke of their physical resemblance, but there is no truth in the assertion. Hayter was nominated to the see of Norwich on 13 Oct. 1749 and consecrated on 3 Dec. On the rearrangement after his death of the household of Frederick, prince of Wales (1751), the post
