Montague Hayter

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Montague Hayter

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Montague William Hayter

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1871|11|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Ringwood, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|5|6|1871|11|16|df=yes}}

| death_place = Christchurch, Hampshire, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| family =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1904

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 7

| runs1 = 166

| bat avg1 = 13.83

| 100s/50s1 = –/1

| top score1 = 82

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–

| date = 23 December

| year = 2009

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14114.html Cricinfo

}}

Montague William Hayter (16 November 1871 – 6 May 1948) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Meshach William Hayter and Mary Jane Eaton, he was born in November 1871 at Ringwood, Hampshire. Hayter made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Leicestershire at Leicester in the 1904 County Championship;{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6652/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Montague Hayter|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=17 April 2024|url-access=subscription}} he was one of seven consecutive Hampshire debutants in 1904, in what was a weak Hampshire side which would finish last in the County Championship.{{cite web|url=https://hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/a-z-h6/|title=A–Z (H6)|website=hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com|access-date=17 April 2024}} Hayter made six further first-class appearances for Hampshire in 1904, which included playing against the touring South Africans at Alton. In his seven first-class matches, Hayter scored 166 runs at an average of 13.83;{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6652/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Montague Hayter|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=17 April 2024|url-access=subscription}} he made one half century, a score of 82 against Derbyshire.

Outside of cricket, he was the head keeper of the Royalty Fishery in Christchurch Harbour from 1909 to 1946.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9RAAAAAIAAJ|title=River to River:A Fisherman's Pilgrimage|first=Stephen Lucius|last=Gwynn|author-link=Stephen Gwynn|publisher=Country Life|location=London|pages=67–68|year=1937|language=en}} Hayter died at Christchurch in May 1948.