ABRAHAM HAYWARD BIOGRAPHY

HAYWARD, ABRAHAM (1802-1884). —Miscellaneous writer, belonged to an old Wiltshire family and was ed. at Tiverton School. He studied law at the Inner Temple, and was called to the Bar 1832. He had a great reputation as a raconteur and sayer of good things, and he was a copious contributor to periodicals, especially the Quarterly Review . Many of his articles were reprinted as Biographical and Critical Essays , and Eminent Statesmen and Writers ; he also wrote Lives of George Selwyn and Lord Chesterfield, and books on Whist, Junius, and The Art of Dining . His Select Correspondence appeared posthumously.