He left Sherbourne to attend Oxford University where he read Physics and stayed on to complete a PhD.
One was Rollo Hayman, Doctor of Science of Oxford, who gave many years of devoted service and who also made some generous gifts to the College, notably the Swimming Bath and I believe, the Fives Courts.".
[7] Hayman met Mary Rudd a military nurse who was hiking from the army camp in Diyatalawa and they were married in England in 1945.
[9][10] The annual water polo match between Royal and S Thomas is played for the RL Hayman trophy.
[14] The commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Science laboratory he donated reads "To spend and be spent in the service of others was his greatest privilege".