Harold Richard Hayward

Place: Southport

Born: 1892

Death: 1964

Biography:

Richard Hayward was a British film actor, writer, and musician. He was born in Southport, England in 1892 and moved to Ireland as a baby. Hayward was an enthusiast for all Ulster regional popular culture and was a member of the Orange Order. He worked at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and helped form the Belfast Repertory Theatre Company. Hayward was a popular singer in the 1940s and 1950s and wrote several travel books about Ireland. He died in a road accident outside Ballymena, Northern Ireland in October 1964.