Henry Rudge Hayward (February 1831 – 17 December 1912) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1883[1] to 1908.

[2][3] Hayward was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon-on-Thames (now Abingdon School) which he attended as a boarder from August 1840 until 1849;[4] and Pembroke College, Oxford, matriculating in 1849 and graduating B.A.

[7] After a curacy in Marlow, he held incumbencies in Fawley,[8] Lydiard Millicent from 1864 to 1881[9] and Cirencester from 1881 to 1898.

[10] He was a Residentiary Canon at Gloucester Cathedral from 1898 to March 1912, when he resigned because of ill health.

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