William Hayley (priest)

William Hayley (1683–1715) of Cleobury Mortimer, Salop was a Church of England priest and dean of Chichester Cathedral.^[1]

Education[edit]

Hayley matriculated at the age of 15 and went on to become a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was awarded a BA in 1676, MA in 1680 and DD in 1695.^[2]

Career[edit]

William Hayley was ordained in September 1683.^[2] He was chaplain to Sir William Trumbull the ambassador to Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) and Paris.^[3]

Hayley was also chaplain to King William III.^[4] In 1695 he was instituted Rector of St Giles in the Fields, London. Then in 1699 he was appointed Dean of Chichester Cathedral, a post he held until his death in 1715.^[3]

Family[edit]

Hayley's father, who was also called William, originally came from Bridgnorth but moved to Cleobury-Mortimer where he married a Catherine Bach. Hayley was one of their seven children.^[1]

Hayley married the daughter of Sir Thomas Mears and had one son Thomas and a daughter Anne. He died at his house in Great Russell Street on 30 October 1715 and is buried in the chancel of St Giles in the Fields.^[4] William's younger brother, Thomas also became Dean of Chichester Cathedral. William was great uncle to the writer William Hayley.

According to Mark Anthony Lower, Dean Hayley procured the patent of arms borne by the Hayley family.^[5]

Citations[edit]

^ ^a ^b Lower, Mark Antony (1865). The Worthies of Sussex: Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Natives Or Inhabitants of the County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. subscribers only. p. 154.
^ ^a ^b Clergy of the Church of England database Accessdate 8 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b Foster, Joseph (1891–1892). "Hayley, William". Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co. – via British History Online.
^ ^a ^b Brydges. Restituta. pp. 55-56
^ Lower, Mark Antony (1865). The Worthies of Sussex: Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Natives Or Inhabitants of the County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. subscribers only. p. 155.

References[edit]

Brydges, Egerton (1814). Restituta Volume I. London: Longman, Hurst,Rees, Orme and Brown.
"Clergy of the Church of England". London: Kings College.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Francis Hawkins	Dean of Chichester 1699 – 1715	Succeeded by Thomas Sherlock

[Lower-1] Lower, Mark Antony (1865). The Worthies of Sussex: Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Natives Or Inhabitants of the County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. subscribers only. p. 154.

[cced-2] Clergy of the Church of England database Accessdate 8 February 2016.

[ax681-3] Foster, Joseph (1891–1892). "Hayley, William". Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co. – via British History Online.

[brydges55-4] Brydges. Restituta. pp. 55-56

[5] Lower, Mark Antony (1865). The Worthies of Sussex: Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Natives Or Inhabitants of the County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. subscribers only. p. 155.

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v t e Deans of Chichester
High Medieval	Odo Richard Matthew Richard John de Greneford Jordan de Meleburn Seffride Matthew de Chichester Nicholas de Aquila Seffride Simon de Perigord Walter Thomas de Lichfield Geoffrey Walter de Glocestria Thomas de Berghstede
Late Medieval	William de Grenefeld John de St Leophardo Henry de Garland Walter de Segrave William Lenn Roger de Freton Richard le Scrope William de Lullyngton John de Maydenhith John Haselee Henry Lovel Richard Talbot William Milton John Patten/Waynflete John Crutchere John Waynfleet John Cloos
Early modern	John Prychard Geoffrey Symson John Young William Fleshmonger Richard Caurden Giles Eyre Bartholomew Traheron Thomas Sampson William Pye Hugh Turnbull Richard Curteys Anthony Rushe Martin Culpepper William Thorne Francis Dee Richard Steward George Aglionby Bruno Ryves Joseph Henshaw Joseph Gulston Nathaniel Crew Thomas Lambrook George Stradling Francis Hawkins William Hayley Thomas Sherlock John Newey Thomas Hayley James Hargraves William Ashburnham Thomas Ball Charles Harward
Late modern	Combe Miller Christopher Bethell Samuel Slade George Chandler Walter Hook John Burgon Francis Pigou Richard Randall John Hannah Arthur Duncan Jones Walter Hussey Robert Holtby John Treadgold Nicholas Frayling Stephen Waine

v t e Diocese of Chichester
Chichester Cathedral The Palace, Chichester Diocesan Church House, Hove Area scheme (1984–2013)
Office holders	Martin Warner, Bishop of Chichester Ruth Bushyager, Bishop of Horsham Will Hazlewood, Bishop of Lewes AEO: the bishop diocesan & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Dean of Chichester (vacant) Martin Lloyd Williams, Archdeacon of Brighton & Lewes Edward Dowler, Archdeacon of Hastings Luke Irvine-Capel, Archdeacon of Chichester Angela Martin, Archdeacon of Horsham
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Hastings (1912–1975; merged back into Lewes archdeaconry)