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HAYLEY, WILLIAM (17451820) , English writer, the friend and biographer of William Cowper, was born at Chichester on the 9th of November 1745. He was sent to Eton in 1757, and to Trinity Hall
Cambridge , in 1763; his connexion with the Middle Temple, London, where he was admitted in 1766, was merely nominal. In 1767 he left Cambridge and went to live in London. Two years later he married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Ball, dean of Chichester. His private means enabled Hayley to live on his patrimonial estate at Eartham, Sussex, and he retired there in 1774. He had already written many occasional poetical pieces, when in 1771 his tragedy, The Afflicted Father, was rejected by David Garrick
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Romney . For the last twelve years of his life Hayley received an allowance for writing his Memoirs. He died at Felpham on the 12th of November 182o. Hayley's first wife died in 1797; her mind had been seriously affected, and since 1789 they had been separated. He married in 1809 Mary Welford, but they also separated after three years. He left no children.Hayley's Poetical Works were published in 3 vols. (1785) ; his Poems and Plays in 6 vols. (1788). See Memoirs ... of William Hayley . . . and Memoirs of his son T. A. Hayley, ed. John Johnson (2 vols., 1823) (containing many of Hayley's letters); an article on these memoirs by Robert Southey in the Quarterly Review, vol. xxxi.. 1825; William Blake, by A. C. Swinburne (2nd ed., 1868, pp. 28 et seq.); Life of Willicetn Blake, by Alexander Gilchrist (vol. i., 188o), with some of Blake's letters to Haylcy; The Correspondence of William Cowper, arranged by Thomas Wright
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