William Hayter (priest)

William Thomas Baring Hayter (30 August 1858 – 21 August 1935[1]) was an Anglican priest and teacher in the 20th century.

St Bartholemew's Church, Hints

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,[2] and then of Honley and of Stratford Sub Castle in 1912.

Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar

In 1913 Hayter became Dean of Gibraltar, where he stayed until 1920.[3] Returning to England in 1921, he 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.

Charterhouse School

Hayter retired to Penn, Buckinghamshire where he died at the age of 77.[4]

Hayter married Maud Beauchamp, daughter of Sir Thomas Proctor Beauchamp of Langley Park, Norfolk in 1889.[5] They had three daughters, of whom the eldest Dorothea married the Italian sculptor Romano Romanelli. Hayter's sister Frances married Falconer Madan (1851–1935), Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.