Henry Hayman (educationist)

Hayman was born on 3 March 1823 in Surrey Street, Strand, London, the eldest son of Philip Dell Hayman;{{alox2|title=Hayman, Henry (2)}} the journalist Johh Marshall Hayman was his brother. In October 1832, Hayman entered Merchant Taylors' School, and becoming head monitor passed with a Sir Thomas White scholarship on 28 June 1841 to St. John's College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. with a double second class in 1845.{{sfn|Lee|1912}} He proceeded M.A. in 1849, B.D. in 1854, and D.D. in 1870. He was a Fellow of his college from 1844 to 1855, and received the degree of M.A., ad eundem, at Cambridge in the latter year. He was ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in 1848.{{sfn|Lee|1912}}

Hayman was curate of St. Luke's, Old Street, London, from 1848 to 1849. and of St. James's, Westminster, from 1849 to 1851, and was assistant preacher at the Temple Church from 1854 to 1857.{{sfn|Lee|1912}} In 1852 he turned to teaching, first as an assistant master at Charterhouse School. He was headmaster at St Olave's Grammar School from 1855 to 1859, and at Cheltenham Grammar School, from 1859 to 1868. He had one year, 1868–9, as head of St Andrew's College, Bradfield.

On 20 November 1869, Hayman was elected headmaster of Rugby School in succession to Frederick Temple.{{sfn|Lee|1912}} Hayman was a high church conservative, while Temple was a liberal broad church man, one of the group publishing Essays and Reviews in 1860.{{cite book |last1=Roach |first1=John |title=Secondary Education in England 1870-1902: Public Activity and Private Enterprise |date=12 October 2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-96008-8 |page=135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UFWkE8d8qYC&pg=PT135 |language=en}} Temple would have preferred John Percival, and his choice would have been Theodore Walrond, of the other candidates. Hayman, anyway, was alien to the tradition of Thomas Arnold, head of Rugby from 1828 to 1841.{{cite book |last1=Hinchliff |first1=Peter Bingham |title=Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: A Life |date=1998 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=132 |isbn=978-0-19-826386-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfdnLe-GEEYC&pg=PA132 |language=en}} Initially, an issue was made of Hayman's testimonials. Matthew Arnold looked at them, at the time, with Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and concluded that "they are such as will perfectly enable the trustees to stand by the appointment" if they wished.{{cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Matthew |title=Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888 |date=1895 |publisher=Macmillan and Company |page=25|volume=II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yk6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25 |language=en}}

Hayman's appointment was by the trustees of the school. The Public Schools Act 1868 meant that the trustees were about to be replaced by a governing body. When the matter came to court, it was ruled that the incoming governing body were not bound to continue Hayman in post.{{cite book |last1=Great Britain Court of Chancery |title=The Law Reports: Equity cases before the master of the rolls and the vice-chancellors |date=1874 |publisher=Council of Law Reporting |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7Q0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA28 |language=en}}

The timeline of the Hayman affair published by Samuel Ralph Townshend Mayer, a Hayman supporter, shows that the transition occurred at the end of 1871, when six of the trustees became governors. Temple, George Granville Bradley, and William Henry Bateson, partisan against Hayman, were on the governing body.{{cite book |last1=Mayer |first1=Samuel Ralph Townshend |title=Rugby School. Extracts from the minute book of the governing body of Rugby School, inspected, ... after bill filed in Chancery, shewing the true character of their proceedings towards ... Dr. Hayman; with introduction and comments: to which is added a complete chronology of facts in the case. Edited by S. R. T. Mayer |date=1874 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGufjkzFxxoC&pg=PA2 |language=en}} Roach writes:

"Temple did nothing to conceal his hostility ... It seems extraordinary that he was prepared to behave in such a way towards his successor. ... Hayman seems to have been tactless and good at making enemies."{{cite book|last=Roach|first=John|title=Secondary Education in England, 1870-1902: Public Activity and Private Enterprise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6pYOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA142|year=1991|publisher=Routledge|isbn= 9780415035729|pages=142–143}}

Hayman was opposed by almost all of the staff: 20 out of 21 assistant masters had protested to the trustees about the appointment. To no avail, Temple told Hayman that he was informing the trustees that their choice would be a disaster.{{cite book |last1=Hinchliff |first1=Peter Bingham |title=Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: A Life |date=1998 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=133 |isbn=978-0-19-826386-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfdnLe-GEEYC&pg=PA133 |language=en}} Initially Edward Ashley Scott led resistance to Hayman, and Hayman unsuccessfully asked the trustees to sack him.{{cite book |last1=Gronn |first1=Peter |title=The Making of Educational Leaders |date=28 May 1999 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-304-70516-0 |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDutAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 |language=en}}{{acad|id=SCT848EA|name=Scott, Edward Ashley}} Again, in 1873, Hayman chose to target leaders of hostility to him, Arthur Sidgwick (as "the only single man"), and Charles James Eliseo Smith (1835–1900). In this case, the governing body dismissed Hayman, its chairman Henry Philpott having become disillusioned with Hayman's methods.{{cite ODNB|id=48597|first=Janet|last=Howarth|title=Sidgwick, Arthur (1840–1920)}}{{cite book |last1=Simpson |first1=John Barclay Hope |title=Rugby Since Arnold: A History of Rugby School from 1842 |date=1967 |publisher=Macmillan |page=86 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Hinchliff |first1=Peter Bingham |title=Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: A Life |date=1998 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=134 |isbn=978-0-19-826386-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfdnLe-GEEYC&pg=PA134 |language=en}}

Hayman took the governors to court, retaining William Pearson QC.[http://archives.ucl.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%22PEARSON/1/3/2%22) Correspondence between Hayman and Pearson] Richard Malins as Vice-Chancellor of England agreed with the defence's demurrer, and ruled the court should not interfere. Malins also made it clear, however, that in his view Hayman had been badly treated. He made no ruling on costs, and Hayman was subsidised by supporters. W. H. D. Rouse's 1898 history of the school passes over the period with comments on the new building work by William Butterfield.{{cite book |last1=Rouse |first1=William Henry Denham |title=A history of Rugby School |date=1898 |publisher=Duckworth |location=London |page=304 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofrugbysc00rousuoft/page/304/mode/1up}}

Hayman served as Rector at Aldingham from 1874 until 1904. He died there on 11 July 1904, and was buried in the churchyard.{{sfn|Lee|1912}}

• [http://www.galaxie.com/author/1021 Articles by Henry Hayman including "My Time At Rugby (1869–74)"]

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