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HAYWARD, ABRAHAM (1801-1884)

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HAYWARD, See also:ABRAHAM (1801-1884) , See also:English See also:man of letters, son of See also:Joseph Hayward, of an old See also:Wiltshire See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Wilton, near See also:Salisbury, on the 22nd of See also:November 18o1. After See also:education at Blundell's school, See also:Tiverton, he entered the Inner See also:Temple in 1824, and was called to the See also:bar in See also:June 1832. He took See also:part as a conservative in the discussions of the See also:London Debating Society, where his opponents were J. A. See also:Roebuck and See also:John See also:Stuart See also:Mill. The editorship of the See also:Law See also:Magazine; or, Quarterly See also:Review of See also:Jurisprudence, which he held from 1829 to 1844, brought him into connexion with John See also:Austin, G. Cornewall See also:Lewis, and such See also:foreign jurists as See also:Savigny, whose tractate on contemporary legislation and jurisprudence he rendered into English. In 1833 he travelled abroad, and on his return printed privately a See also:translation of See also:Goethe's See also:Faust into English See also:prose (pronounced by See also:Carlyle to be the best versionextant in his See also:time). A second and revised edition was published after another visit to See also:Germany in See also:January 1834, in the course of which Hayward met See also:Tieck, See also:Chamisso, De La Motte Fouqu€, Varnhagen von Ense and Madame Goethe. In 1878 he contributed the rather colourless See also:volume on Goethe to See also:Blackwood's Foreign See also:Classics. A successful translation was in those days a first-See also:rate credential fora reviewer, and Hayward began contributing to the New Monthly, the Foreign Quarterly, the Quarterly Review and the See also:Edinburgh Review. His first successes in this new See also:field were won in 1835–1836 by articles on See also:Walker's " See also:Original " and on " Gastronomy." The essays were reprinted to See also:form one of his best volumes, The See also:Art of Dining, in 1852.

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February 1835 he was elected to the See also:Athenaeum See also:Club under See also:Rule II., and he remained for nearly fifty years one of its most conspicuous and most influential members. He was also a subscriber to the Carlton, but ceased to frequent it when he be-came a Peelite. At the Temple, Hayward, whose reputation was rapidly growing as a connoisseur not only of a See also:bill of fare but also (as See also:Swift would have said) of a bill of See also:company, gave recherche dinners, at which ladies of See also:rank and See also:fashion appreciated the wit of See also:Sydney See also:Smith and See also:Theodore See also:Hook, the dignity of See also:Lockhart and See also:Lyndhurst and the See also:oratory of See also:Macaulay. At the Athenaeum and in See also:political society he to some extent succeeded to the position of See also:Croker. He and Macaulay were commonly said to be the two best-read men in See also:town. Hayward got up every important subject of discussion immediately it came into prominence, and concentrated his See also:information in such a way that he habitually had the last word to say on a topic. When See also:Rogers died, when Vanity See also:Fair was published, when the Greville See also:Memoirs was issued or a revolution occurred on the See also:continent, Hayward, whose memory was as retentive as his See also:power of accumulating documentary See also:evidence was exhaustive, wrote an elaborate See also:essay on the subject for the Quarterly or the Edinburgh. He followed up his See also:paper by giving his acquaintances no See also:rest until they either assimilated or undertook to combat his views. Political ladies first, and statesmen afterwards, came to recognize the See also:advantage of obtaining Hayward's See also:good See also:opinion. In this way the " old reviewing See also:hand " became an acknowledged See also:link between society, letters and politics. As a professional man he was less successful; his promotion to be Q.C. in 1845 excited a See also:storm of opposition, and, disgusted at not being elected a Bencher of his See also:Inn in the usual course, Hayward virtually withdrew from legal practice. In February 1848 he became one of the See also:chief See also:leader-writers for the Peelite See also:organ, the See also:Morning See also:Chronicle.

The morbid activity of his memory, however, continued to make him many enemies. He alienated Disraeli by tracing a See also:

purple patch in his See also:official eulogy of See also:Wellington to a newspaper translation from See also:Thiers's funeral See also:panegyric on See also:General St Cyr. His See also:sharp See also:tongue made an enemy of Roebuck, and he disgusted the See also:friends of Mill by the stories he raked up for an obituary See also:notice of the See also:great economist (The Times, loth May 1873). He See also:broke with See also:Henry See also:Reeve in 1874 by a venomous review of the Greville Memoirs, in which Reeve was compared to the beggarly See also:Scot deputed to let off the See also:blunderbuss which See also:Bolingbroke (Greville) had charged. His enemies prevented him from enjoying a well-selected quasi-See also:sinecure, which both See also:Palmerston and See also:Aberdeen admitted to be his due. See also:Samuel See also:Warren attacked him (very unjustly, for Hayward was anything but a See also:parasite) as Venom Tuft in Ten Thousand a See also:Year; and Disraeli aimed at him partially in Ste Barbe (in See also:Endymion), though the See also:satire here was directed primarily against See also:Thackeray. After his break with Reeve, Hayward devoted himself more exclusively to the Quarterly. His essays on See also:Chesterfield and See also:Selwyn were reprinted in 1854. Collective See also:editions of his articles appeared in volume form in 1858, 1873 and 1874, and Selected Essays in two volumes, 1878. In his useful but far from flawless edition of the Autobiography, Letters and See also:Literary Remains of Mrs (Thrale) See also:Piozzi (1861), he again appears as a supplementer and continuator of J. W. Croker.

His Eminent Statesmen and Writers (188o) commemorates to a large extent See also:

personal friendships with such men as See also:Dumas, See also:Cavour and Thiers, whom he knew intimately. As a counsellor of great ladies and of politicians, to whom he held forth with a sense of all-See also:round responsibility surpassing that of a See also:cabinet See also:minister, Hayward retained his See also:influence to the last years of his See also:life. But he had little sympathy with See also:modern ideas. He used to say that he had outlived every one that he could really look up to. He died, a See also:bachelor, in his rooms at 8 St See also:James's See also:Street (a small museum of autograph portraits and reviewing trophies) on the 2nd of February 1884. Two volumes of Hayward's See also:Correspondence (edited by H. E. See also:Carlisle) were published in 1886. In. Vanity Fair (27th November 1875) he may be seen as he appeared in later life. (T.

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