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and other directors of the Canadian Pacific Colonisation Society, by two shareholders, claiming the repayment of their investments on grounds of misrepresentation. He died at Aldingham on 11 July 1904, and was buried in the churchyard there. He married on 19 July 1855, at St. George's, Hanover Square, Matilda Julia, second daughter of George Westby of Mowbreck Hall, Lancashire, and left a numerous family. There is an enlarged photograph of him at St. Olave's grammar school, and an oil painting belongs to the family.

Hayman was a cultured scholar and a fluent speaker and preacher. He contributed extensively to the 'Edinburgh,' 'Quarterly,' 'Nineteenth Century,' 'National Review,' and other leading periodicals, and was a voluminous writer for Smith's 'Dictionary of the Bible' between 1863 and 1893. His independent works include Greek and Latin verse translations, 1864, an edition of Homer's 'Odyssey' (3 vols. 1881-6), and the following : 1. 'Dialogues of the Early Church (1) Rome, (2) Smyrna, (3) Carthage,' 1851. 2. 'Retail Mammon, or the Pawnbroker's Daughter,' 1853. 3. 'Can we adapt the Public School System to the Middle Class?' 1858. 4. 'Sermons preached at Rugby School,' 1875. 5. 'Why we suffer, and other Essays,' 1890. 6. 'The Epistles of the New Testament,' an attempt to present them in current and popular idiom, 1900.

[The Times, 2 Jan. 1873, 13 July 1904; Rugby School, Remarks and Judgment of Vice-chancellor Sir Richard Malins on the Demurrer to the Bill filed by Rev. Dr. Hayman against the Governing Body of Rugby School, 1874; private information.]


HAYNE, CHARLES HAYNE SEALE-. [See Seale-Hayne, Charles Hayne (1833-1903), politician and benefactor.]

HAYWARD, ROBERT BALDWIN (1829–1903), mathematician, born on 7 March 1829, at Bocking, Essex, was son of Robert Hayward by his wife Ann Baldwin. The father, of an old Quaker family, withdrew from the Quaker community on his marriage. Educated at University College, London, Robert Baldwin entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1846, graduating as fourth wrangler in 1850. He was fellow from 30 March 1852 till 27 March 1860, and from 1852 till 1855 assistant tutor. From 1855 he was mathematical tutor and reader in natural philosophy at Durham University, leaving in 1859 to become a mathematical master at Harrow School. Hayward remained at Harrow till 1893, a period of thirty-four years. He improved the system of arithmetical teaching there, and ably advocated better methods. He was president (1878–89) of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching (afterwards the Mathematical Association), and published in 1895 a pamphlet, ‘Hints on teaching Arithmetic.’ He was author of a text-book on ‘Elementary Solid Geometry’ (1890) and ‘The Algebra of Coplanar Vectors and Trigonometry’ (1899). In pure mathematics he made many researches, and published numerous papers in the ‘Transactions’ of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the ‘Quarterly Journal of Mathematics.’ He was elected F.R.S. on 1 June 1876.

Hayward, whose interests were varied, was a capable mountain climber and an original member of the Alpine Club from its foundation in 1858, withdrawing in 1865. To the ‘Nineteenth Century’ (Feb. 1884) he contributed an article on ‘Proportional Representation’ which attracted notice He died at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on 2 Feb. 1903. He married in 1860 Marianne, daughter of Henry Rowe, of Cambridge; his wife's sister married Henry William Watson [q. v. Suppl. II]. He had issue two sons and four daughters.

[Proc. Roy. See. vol. lxxv.; Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. vol. xxxv.; Roy. Soc. Cat.]

T. E. J.


HEADLAM, WALTER GEORGE (1866–1908), scholar and poet, born in London on 15 Feb. 1866, was son of Edward Headlam, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, director of examinations in the Civil Service Commission (nephew of Thomas Emerson Headlam [q. v.]), and of Mary Anne Johnson Sowerby. He was educated at Elstree School, Hertfordshire, and at Harrow, in the house of the headmaster. Dr. H. M. Butler, subsequently Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

In 1884 he entered King's College, Cambridge, as a scholar on the foundation. Both at Harrow and at Cambridge his career was distinguished. At Cambridge he gained many university prizes for verse composition (viz. seven Browne's medals and the Porson prize) in the years 1885-7. In 1887 he was placed in the first class (division 3) of the classical tripos, part i., graduating B.A. in 1887, and proceeded M.A. in 1891, and Litt.D. in 1903. In 1890 he became fellow of King's College, and shortly afterwards was appointed to a lectureship in classics. His best work as a teacher was done with small classes, where his striking personality had free play. In Jan. 1906 he was a candidate for the regius professorship