R.N. C.B. By his second lady, Jane, eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral John Inglis, he had a son, who still survives[1].
Agents.– Messrs. Maude.
JOHN HAYES, Esq
A Companion of the most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer is distantly related to the Hays of North Britain, a family descended from the Anglo-Norman Hays, who came into England with William the Conqueror, and at present represented by the Earl of Errol, Hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland.
His name was first entered on the books of a King’s ship about the termination of the American revolutionary war, at which period he was but little more than seven years of age; but his juvenile predilection for the naval service was shortly after over-ruled by his great-uncle, the late Adam Hayes, Esq., Master Shipwright of Deptford dock-yard, who being without any children of his own, was particularly anxious to have a junior branch of the family educated as a naval architect under his immediate directions; and therefore selected Mr. John Hayes for that purpose, hoping, as he said, to qualify him for the appointment of Surveyor of the Navy, or at all events to be succeeded by him as Builder at Deptford.
In consequence of this arrangement, a nephew whom he had previously been instructing, but whose abilities did not answer his expectations, was discarded, and the subject of this memoir passed four or five years under the sole controul of his great uncle, to whom his father had resigned all authority over him; but immediately on the demise of the old gentleman, an event occasioned by a violent attack of gout in the stomach, he laid aside the rule and compass, and quitting the drawing board, embarked as a Midshipman on board the Orion 74, commanded by the late Sir Hyde Parker, under whom he served during the Dutch armament, in 1787.
- ↑ Vice-Admiral Inglis commanded the Belliqueux 64, in the battle off Camperdown, Oct. 11, 1797; and died at Edinburgh, in 1807.
