Reginald James Hayter (4 December 1913 – 13 March 1994)[1] was an English cricket journalist who founded his own sports reporting agency.
Born in Paddington, Hayter attended Marylebone Grammar School before joining Pardons, the Press Association's (PA) football and cricket reporting agency, as a junior journalist in 1933.
[1] He bought out the run-down agency business of retiring Bert Long and set-up in a single room located high above the Strand.
[1] It was the starting place for the likes of Albert Sewell (the agency's first employee), Richard Keys, Gary Newbon, Steve Rider, Martin Samuel and Henry Winter.
[3] Hayter acted as an agent and advisor to many sportsmen including Basil D'Oliveira, Ian Botham, Tony Greig, Henry Cooper and Bob Wilson.