Henry Hayman (educationist)

Henry Hayman (1823–1904) was a British educator, the Headmaster of Rugby School from 1870 to 1874, immediately after Frederick Temple. He was sacked from the post. This led to a notorious legal battle in which Hayman's counsel was William Pearson, Q.C., the father of Karl Pearson. This was one of Pearson's first cases after becoming a QC.

Life

Hayman was born on 3 March 1823 in Surrey Street, Strand, London. He was eldest son of Philip Bell Hayman, clerk in Somerset House, himself son of Henry Hayman, rector of Lewcombe and vicar of Halstock, Dorset, and Jane, daughter of John Marshall. His brother was Marshall Hayman, barrister-at-law and a member of the staff of the Saturday Review, who was lost on the Alps near Zermatt in 1876. In October 1832, Hayman entered Merchant Taylors' School, and becoming head monitor passed with a Sir Thomas White scholarship on 28 June 1841 to St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. with a double second class in 1845, proceeding M.A. in 1849, B.D. in 1854, and D.D. in 1870.

He was treasurer of the Union in Lord Dufferin's presidency, and was offered in 1845 a seat (number five) in the university eight, but family circumstances prevented him from accepting it. He was a fellow of his college from 1844 to 1855, and received the degree of M.A., ad eundem, at Cambridge in the latter year. He was ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in 1848. He was curate of St. Luke's, Old Street, London, from 1848 to 1849. and of St. James's, Westminster, from 1849 to 1851, and was assistant preacher at the Temple Church from 1854 to 1857.

On 20 November 1869, he was elected headmaster of Rugby in succession to Frederick Temple. Hayman came from Bradfield College and was a high church conservative - after Temple, who had been a liberal. Hayman had poor credentials and only a second-class degree; he was opposed by most of the staff. "Temple did nothing to conceal his hostility ... It seems extraordinary that he was prepared to behave in such a way towards his successor. ... Hayman seems to have been tactless and good at making enemies."

It is said that Hayman "left the School in rather a hurry and faced being homeless, penniless and with nine children to care for unless a suitable living was acquired for him". He served as Rector at Aldingham from 1874 until 1904. " He died at Aldingham on 11 July 1904, and was buried in the churchyard there.

Hayman's other affiliations included:

• Scholar and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.
• Assistant Master at Charterhouse, 1852.
• Assistant Preacher at the Temple, 1854.
• Headmaster of Queen Elizabeth's School, St Olave's, Southwark, 1855.
• Headmaster of Cheltenham Grammar School, 1859.
• Headmaster of St Andrew's College, Bradfield, 1868.
• Rector of Aldingham, 1874.

Works

• Articles by Henry Hayman including "My Time At Rugby (1869–74)" [1]

Notes

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Hayman, Henry". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

References

• Hinchliff, Peter B. 1998. Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: a Life. Oxford University Press. (See p. 131 for details of Hayman's expulsion)
• Roach, J. (1991). Secondary Education in England, 1870-1902: Public Activity and Private Enterprise. Routledge. [2]
• M. C. Curthoys. "Hayman, Henry (1823–1904)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33777. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)