Hayward, ABRAHAM, essayist and talker, was born at Wishford, in Wiltshire, 31st October 1802. He had neither public school nor university education, but after keeping terms at the Inner Temple was called to the bar in 1832. His leanings were, however, more to letters than to law, yet he founded and edited the Law Magazine, and to every one's surprise was made Q.C. by Lord Lyndhurst in 1845. He published in 1833 his excellent prose translation of the first part of Faust, and soon became a busy contributor to the newspapers and magazines, especially the Quarterly Review, in which readers soon learned to recognise his personality in an unusual combination of vivacity, epigrammatic verve, and critical acumen. By his brilliant conversation, his wealth of anecdotes, his whist-playing, and his artistic interest in 'the art of dining' he delighted society almost down to his death, at London, February 2, 1884. Many of his best articles were reprinted in his Biographical and Critical Essays (2 vols. 1858), the second series (2 vols. 1873), and the third (1 vol. 1873); and in Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers (2 vols. 1880). Other books were Autobiography and Remains of Mrs Piozzi (2 vols. 1861), Selections from the Diary of a Lady of Quality—Sir Watkin Wynne's daughter (1864), and a somewhat perfunctory book on Goethe, in 'Foreign Classics for English Readers' (1877). His little books—The Art of Dining (1852), Lord
Chesterfield and George Selwyn (both in 1856), and Short Rules of Modern Whist (1878)—were widely circulated. In 1878 he published in two volumes his Selected Essays. His Select Correspondence was given to the world in two volumes in 1886.