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ABRAHAM HAYWARD (1801-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM See also:HAYWARD (1801-1884)  , See also:English See also:man of letters, son of See also:Joseph See also: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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