John Hayward (MP for Bridgnorth and Saltash)

Sir John Hayward JP
High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire
In office 1632–1633
Member of Parliament for Saltash
In office February 1626 – June 1626
High Sheriff of Kent
In office 1623–1624
Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth
In office January 1621 – January 1622
Personal details
Born	1591 London
Died	1636 Rochester, Kent
Resting place	St Alphege London Wall
Nationality	English
Spouse	Anne Livesey (ca. 1624-his death)
Alma mater	Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Occupation	Landowner and politician

Sir John Hayward (c. 1591 – April 1636) was an English politician and landowner. He was MP for Bridgnorth in 1621 and for Saltash in 1626, as well as High Sheriff of Kent in 1623 and of Montgomeryshire in 1632.

Personal details

John Hayward was born in 1591, second surviving son of Sir Rowland Hayward (1520-1593) and his second wife Catherine Smythe. Originally from an old Shropshire family, his father was a wealthy merchant and twice Lord Mayor of London.^[1]

In 1615, Hayward inherited his elder brother George's estates in Acton Burnell; around 1624, he moved to Hollingbourne in Kent and married his recently widowed cousin Anne, mother of Sir Michael Livesey, a regicide who approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649. They had no children and when he died in 1636, he was buried next to his father in St Alphege London Wall.^[2] His will records him as being resident in Rochester, Kent.^[3]

References

1. WJJ & Hasler 1981.
2. Hunneyball 2010.
3. National Archives 1636.

Sources

• Hunneyball, Paul (2010). HAYWARD, Sir John (c.1591-1636), of Acton Burnell, Salop; later of Hollingbourne and Rochester, Kent in "The History of Parliament; the House of Commons 1604-1629". CUP.
• National Archives (1636). Will of Sir John Hayward of Rochester, Kent. 17 June 1636. PROB 11/171/361.
• WJJ; Hasler (1981). HAYWARD, Sir Rowland (c.1520-93), of Elsinge Spital, London, King's Place, Hackney, Mdx. and Cound, Salop in "The History of Parliament; the House of Commons 1558-1603". Brewer & Boydell.