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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Mar. 16, 1819. [Eldest] s. of John Hayes (1789; CCE19203) [P.C. of Shareshill, Staffs.]. B. [May 31, 1801], at Ashton, Lancs. School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1819; Scholar, 1822; B.A. 1823; M.A. 1826. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, 1850. F.S.A., 1850. Ord. deacon, 1824; priest, 1825. From 1839 spent his time chiefly in visiting and sketching old churches in England and abroad. C. of Bradfield, Essex, 1840-8. Lived at Uplands, Shifnal, Salop, from 1849-64, and subsequently at Lichfield. Published numerous architectural works, including Architectural Studies in France. A founder of the British Archaeological Institute (at Cambridge) in 1844, Hon. M.I.B.A. Married, June 17, 1828, Louisa Elizabeth, dau. of George Reid, Esq., of Trelawny, Jamaica. Died Dec. 1, 1868, at Lichfield; buried at Greenhill. The last male representative of his family. (Eton Sch. Lists; Al. Oxon.; Boase, II. 1479; D.N.B., which says he undertook no parochial work; W. Cooper; Bryan, Dictionary of Painters; Misc. Gen. et Her., N.S., IV. 14.)