John Davy Hayward CBE (2 February 1905 – 17 September 1965) was an English editor, critic, anthologist and bibliophile.
Hayward was educated at Gresham's School and in France before going up to King's College, Cambridge in 1923 to read English and modern languages.
In 1929, he edited John Donne, Dean of St Paul's: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose for the Nonesuch Press.
Eliot's book of verse called Poems Written in Early Youth was compiled and edited by Hayward.
This friendship was strained by Eliot's unexpected marriage in January 1957 to his secretary Esmé Valerie Fletcher.