[3] While Blackburne did resign as Sub-Dean of Exeter in 1703 when accused of a sexual scandal (of which he was cleared by a church investigation), this was with a woman named Mary Martin, unconnected with Hayter.
[7] In the church, Hayter held the following livings:[6] Holding three prebendal stalls in succession in the northern episcopate marked him out for high promotion as he rose through the York chapter.
[9] He was a revelatory evangelist at the pulpit, a doctrinal latitudinarian, condemned mishandling of the poor, and urged temperance, and wider acceptance of clandestine marriages.
After Bishop Hayter's death in 1762, a friend and wealthy landowner, William Fellowes of Shotesham Park, stepped in "to revive the plan" and Norfolk and Norwich Hospital was founded in 1771.
[13] Impressed, Newcastle, also a friend, called him "a sensible and well-bred man", pro-Establishment leanings, earned excoriating criticism from the septic society gossip Horace Walpole.
The whiggish dislike of the Princess doting over her many children was largely blamed on Hayter's seemingly Tory-inspired influences, often misinterpreted as mischievous.
In 1758 he preached a renowned sermon at the London Guildhall in front of the Duke of Devonshire to inspire the government on the treatment of patients at the Foundling Hospital in St Bartholomew's.
He was patronised by Lord Talbot, the Catholic nobleman, who secured his nomination at Bow Church in the East End to be Bishop of London on 24 October 1761 where he was ordained.