Major-General Sir Hayward Reader Whitehead KCB FRCS (1855–1925) was a British Army surgeon who had a distinguished career in India, Malta, and during World War I. Whitehead was born at Gawcott in Buckinghamshire on 14 July 1855, the son of the Revd.
T. C. Whitehead, later head teacher of Christ's College, Finchley.
He qualified as a surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital and then worked at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps.
[1] Whitehead rose through the ranks from surgeon Captain to surgeon Major, serving as Assistant Professor of Military Surgery in the Army Medical School at Netley between 1892 and 1896.
After World War I, he retired to Whinfleld, near Cobham in Surrey.