Sidney Pascoe Hayward MC

Military Cross

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 QC

Queen's Counsel

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 (1896 or 1897 – 11 February 1961) was a British barrister

Barrister

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 and legal writer.

Life

Hayward was the son of A. E. Hayward, rector

Rector

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 of Emley

Emley, West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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. After education at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wakefield, Hayward served from 1914 to 1919 during the First World War with the 7th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment

Duke of Wellington's Regiment

The Duke of Wellington's Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division.In 1702 Colonel George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was authorised to raise a new regiment, which he did in and around the city of Gloucester. As was the custom in those days...

, winning the Military Cross

Military Cross

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. He then studied at Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College, Oxford

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 and was called to the bar by Middle Temple

Middle Temple

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 in 1923. He wrote on the Law of Town and County Planning (1933) and the Law of Housing (1937), took silk

Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...

 in 1936 and was made a bencher

Bencher

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 of Middle Temple in 1953. He died in Andover

Andover, Hampshire

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at his home on 11 February 1961, aged 64.