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Head, Jervis Alston, son of Raymond Evelyn Head MC, of Balsham, Cambs, and Margaret Lloyd, d. of Rev. Frederick Clements Williamson, Vicar of Ashford, Middx; b. 7 Mar. 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (KS); left July 1936; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1936; RA 1939-41 (Lieut.); d. from an accident on active service 15 Mar. 1941.

Jervis Alston Head was born at Cork, Ireland on the 7th of March 1918 the son of Richard Evelyn Head MC and Margaret Lloyd (nee Williamson) of 26b, Golders Way, Golders Green in London and of Balsham in Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Tormore School, Deal and at Westminster School where he was admitted as a King’s Scholar on a Mathematics Scholarship from September 1931 to July 1936. He played the part of Dromo in the school production of “Epilogus in Andriam” in 1935. He matriculated for Merton College, Oxford in 1936 where he was an Officer Cadet in the Oxford University Officer Training Corps.
Shortly after coming down from Oxford he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on the 2nd of August 1939. He was posted to 137 Field Regiment, based at Blackpool and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 2nd of February 1941. By March 1941 the Regiment had moved to Larkhill and he was posted to 501 Battery on the 4th of March 1941.
On the 15th of March 1941, Jervis Head was driving in his Morgan three wheeler car when it struck a road island at Ferndown, at the junction of the Bournemouth and Poole roads to Ringwood in Hampshire. The vehicle overturned and he was seriously injured. He was admitted to the Royal Victoria & West Hampstead Hospital, Boscombe where he died from his injuries at 7pm the same day
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Merton College, Oxford.
He is buried at Durrington Cemetery, Grave 723.

HAZZARD, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt. ); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1623, adm. scholar 1624, matr. Mich. 1623.

HAYWOOD, GILES, son of Francis Haywood, London; b. ; adm. ; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 137); Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 May 1635, aged 18 : BA 1635/6; migrated to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jul 1639; MA 1641. [Presumably Giles Haywood, son of Francis Haywood, bapt. All Hallows, London Wall 12 May 1615].

HAYWARD, WILLIAM, third son of Francis Hayward DM, medical practitioner, Hackney, Middlesex; bapt. St. John, Hackney, Middlesex 26 Oct 1777 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. 1793; KS (aged 16) 1794; adm. Middle Temple 12 Nov 1798; Deputy Assistant Commissary-General, Army 2 Mar 1812; Assistant Commissary-General 22 Oct 1816; Deputy Commissary-General 20 Jan 1837; m.; d. 12 Dec 1848.

HAYTER, JOSHUA, fourth son of Rev. George Hayter, Rector of Chagford, Devon, and Grace ---; brother of Right Rev. Thomas Hayter DD, Bishop of London; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1732/3; KS 1734; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1738, matr. 6 Jun 1738, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1738 – 21 Oct 1743, expiry year of grace as R. Chagford; BA 1742; MA 1747; ordained; Rector of Chagford, Devon, from 29 Sep 1742; m. (by 1746) Frances Hawkins (IGI); buried Chagford, Devon 19 Apr 1771.

Haymes, Maxwell Freeland Leycester, son of Lieut.-Col. Robert Leycester Haymes DSO RA, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, and Minnie Kathleen, d. of Maj. Wilmot Ellis RA; b. 10 Nov. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (KS); left July 1926; Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn 1926-61; Hongkong Vol. Defence Corps 1937-41, interned by Japanese in Philippines 1942-5; exec. and legislative councils Brit. N. Borneo 1956-60; m. 1 May 1944 Irene Betty, d. of Andrew Thomas Gray of Shanghai and Weybridge, Surrey; d. 8 July 1982.

HAYES, SAMUEL, son of Edmund Hayes, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1763; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1767, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1767, scholar 29 Apr 1768, matr. Mich. 1767; BA 1771; MA 1774; Minor Fellow Trinity Coll., 10 Sep 1772, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1774; Seatonian Prize, Cambridge Univ. 1775-8, 1783-5; Usher at the School 1770-88; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 6 Oct 1771, priest (Norwich) 28 Oct 1772; known as “botch” Hayes, “for the manner in which he mended his pupils’ verses”; such a slack disciplinarian that the boys in his form used “to stick his wig full of paper darts in school” (Southey, Life and Correspondence, I, 135-6); kept a succession of small boarding houses from 1776, latterly one on the Terrace, amalgamated with Farren’s on his marriage; joint author with Robert Carr of tragedy Eugenia, 1766; author, poems and sermons; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 1 May 1788 Elizabeth Farren, widow, who kept the boarding house in the centre of the Terrace, Dean’s Yard; buried Hammersmith 19 Dec 1795, aged 48 (sic).

HAYES, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1570 (Chapter Muniments).

HAY-DRUMMOND, THOMAS AURIOL, second son of Hon. Robert Hay-Drummond (qv); b. 7 Aug 1752; in school lists 1764, 1765; KS 1765; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1769, matr. 24 May 1769, Westminster Student from 23 Dec 1769; d. unm. 7 Apr 1773. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

HAY, THOMAS, second son of Hon. Edward Hay (qv), and his first wife; b. 14 Apr 1759; adm. 27 Apr 1767; KS 1772; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1776, matr. 5 Jun 1776, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1776 – 21 Nov 1785, expiry year of grace as R. Belton from 12 Nov 1784; BA 1780; MA 1783; BD and DD 1795; ordained; Rector of Belton, Suffolk 1784; Rector of North Walsham, Norfolk 11 Oct 1785-1813; Chaplain to House of Commons 1790; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 6 Jun 1795; Rector of North Repps, Norfolk, from 27 Apr 1813; m. 1 May 1786 Anne, dau. of Charles Bragge, Clevedale, Gloucs.; d. 29 Jan 1830.