Derek Hayward (priest)

(John) Derek (Risdon) Hayward, OBE (13 December 1923 - 26 April 2010) was Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1974 until 1975.

Perry was educated at Stowe. After wartime service with the 27th Lancers he was Managing Director of Hayward Waldie & Co. in Calcutta. He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge ; and was ordained in 1957. After a curacy at St Mary, Bramall Lane, Sheffield he was Vicar of St Silas, Sheffield from 1959 to 1963; Vicar of Isleworth from 1964 to 1994; General Secretary of the Diocese of London from 1975 to 1993; and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England from 1975 to 1990.