Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet

Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet (3 February 1840 - 6 November 1901) of Drumboe Castle, County Donegal was a Baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland[1] and High Sheriff of Donegal from 1884 to 1887.

Family

Hayes was born in 1840 the son of Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Emily Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham, a son of the Earl of Longford.[2]

He was educated at Harrow, and succeeded his father Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet as baronet in 1860 and inherited the family estate of Drumboe Castle in County Donegal.

He married, on 25 July 1878, Honourable Alice Anne Hewitt, daughter of James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford and Lady Mary Acheson on. They left no issue.[2]

Career

Hayes signed up to the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot on 13 March 1858 and became Lieutenant on 30 August 1859,[3] and promoted to Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards 27 February 1867. He retired from the army in 1872.[2]

He was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for County Donegal, and served as High Sheriff of Donegal from 1884 to 1887.

Baronetage of Ireland
Preceded by
Edmund Samuel Hayes		 Baronet
(of Drumboe Castle)
1860–1901		 Succeeded by
Edmund Francis Hayes

References
  1. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England. Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994
  2. "Obituary". The Times (36610). London. 12 November 1901. p. 4.
  3. The new army list, and militia list. H. G. Hart 1861
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