John Derek Risdon Hayward, OBE[1] (13 December 1923 – 26 April 2010)[2] was Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1974 until 1975.
After service in World War II service with the 27th Lancers, he was managing director of Hayward Waldie & Co. in Calcutta.
He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1957.
After a curacy at St Mary's Church on Bramall Lane in Sheffield, he was vicar of St Silas, Sheffield (1959–1963); vicar of Isleworth (1964–1994);[4] General Secretary of the Diocese of London (1975–1993);[5] and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England (1975–1990).
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