Hayward (or Hayword), Richard, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon., upholder and apraiser (1758–69). In 1758 purchased two houses and malt house in Hart St for £250, paying a deposit of £2 2s. [Oxford RO, MISC. Berks., VI/V/6] Advertised sales of bankrupts’ or deceaseds’ effects in Jackson's Oxford Journal, 29 July 1759, 20 April 1761 and in 1765, 1766, and 1768; and sale of house in Hart St, 24 January 1760. Announcement on 17 December 1768 that the auctioneer, Hayward, was retiring, and on 28 January 1769 that his business was being taken over by John Byles, draper, mercer and u, and Hayward's house in Hart St was to let.