Harry Maxwell Hayward (28 July 1924, London – 18 March 1979, Oxford) was a British lecturer on and translator of Russian literature.
[1] After schooling in London and Liverpool, Hayward went to Magdalen College, Oxford in 1942 on a scholarship to study German.
He remained in Oxford for two more years before being proposed by Isaiah Berlin for a scheme for young scholars to be attached to the British Embassy in Moscow.
When required to translate for the British ambassador on a visit to Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, Hayward was too dumb-struck to speak.
Although Hayward published no academic monograph and his writings were widely scattered in introductions to books and articles in journals, he became a well-known authority on Russian literature.