270 Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



ROBERT BALDWIN HAYWARD. 18291903. 



Robert Baldwin Hayward, M.A., F.R.S., was born March 7, 1829, 

 and died February 2, 1903. 



Hayward's early education was obtained at University College 

 School, and afterwards he became a student of University College, 

 London. He there attended the lectures of the mathematical pro- 

 fessors, and, in particular, those of the late Prof. De Morgan. He 

 considered himself especially indebted, for his progress in mathematical 

 studies, to De Morgan's lectures and De Morgan's published books. 

 He had a great reverence for De Morgan's intellectual powers and 

 personal character, and was much influenced, in matters of science, by 

 De Morgan's ideas and views. 



Hayward graduated B.A. at the University of London in 1847, 

 and gained the Scholarship in Natural Philosophy at that University. 



In October, 1846, he came into residence at St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, and had a distinguished career as an undergraduate. In 

 January, 1850, before he had attained the age of 21 years, he was 

 placed fourth in the list of Wranglers in the Mathematical Tripos of 

 that year. 



From 1852 to 1855 he was Fellow and Assistant Tutor of 

 St. John's College, and, in 1855, he was appointed Tutor and Reader 

 in Natural Philosophy at the University of Durham. In January, 

 1859, he left Durham to take up a Mathematical Mastership at 

 Harrow School, to which he had been invited by Dr. Vaughan ; and 

 he remained at Harrow, under Dr. Butler and Dr. Welldon, for thirty- 

 four years, retiring in 1893. In January, 1871, he succeeded 

 Dr. Farrar, the late Dean of Canterbury, in the large boarding-house, 

 " The Park," of which he was Master for seventeen years. He 

 examined for the Mathematical Tripos in two successive years as 

 Moderator in 1868, and as Examiner in 1869. He was elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876. 



As an undergraduate, and for some time after taking his degree, 

 Hayward gave his attention more particularly to various branches of 

 Applied Mathematics ; but as he grew older his thoughts turned more 

 in the direction of Pure Mathematics, especially mathematical 

 method. 



In the year 1856, in the tenth volume of the " Transactions of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society," there appeared Hayward's paper on 

 "A Direct Method of estimating Velocities, Accelerations, and all 



