Sir Edward Waterfield Hayward (10 November 1903 – 13 August 1983) was an Australian businessman, best known for owning and managing

John Martin's John Martin & Co. Ltd, colloquially known as John Martin's or simply Johnnies, was an Adelaide-based company which ran a popular chain of department stores in South Australia. It operated for more than 130 years, from 1866 until its closure in ...

, a chain of department stores in

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, and for instigating the

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. Hayward was born in

and was educated at

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, where he took up polo among other sports in which he excelled. After completing his education, Hayward worked as a jackaroo in New South Wales for several years. He started in the retail sector for the first time in 1929, working for Sydney Snow and Co. Ltd., and moved back to Adelaide in 1931 to join the family business,

. One of his first jobs at John Martin's was to visit Canada and the United States to gather ideas from department stores in those countries. It was on this trip that he came up with the idea to start the

, being in particular inspired by the

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and by

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. Since the first pageant in 1933, it has become a much loved Adelaide tradition. During

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Hayward served in the

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; he was 36 when he enlisted in the army. During the war Hayward noted the popularity of the soft drink

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with the Americans. After the war Hayward established a franchise to bottle and sell Coca-Cola in Adelaide. He served either as president or chairman of the franchise for a total of 33 years. Hayward was chairman of the St John Council in South Australia when, in 1952, it became responsible for ambulance services in that state, and he was made a Knight of the Order in 1959. He was made a

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on 10 June 1961. Hayward and his wife, Ursula (née Barr-Smith), were art enthusiasts and built up a magnificent art collection in their Adelaide home "

Carrick Hill Carrick Hill is a publicly accessible historic property at the foot of the Adelaide Hills, in the suburb of Springfield, in South Australia. It was the Adelaide home of Sir Edward "Bill" Hayward and his wife Ursula (née Barr-Smith), and con ...

". The house, its lands, and the collection were bequeathed to the state on Hayward's death (Lady Hayward having died before him), and now form a museum and cultural centre. Carrick Hill - History, https://web.archive.org/web/20080723164829/http://www.carrickhill.sa.gov.au/history.html

References

*''Christmas Pageant creator dies at 79'', The Advertiser, 15 August 1983, p. 14 *Cockburn, Stewart. ''Ideas man who led parade'', The Advertiser, 15 July 1983, p. 6 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayward, Edward 1983 deaths 1903 births Australian colonels 20th-century Australian businesspeople Australian businesspeople in retailing Australian Army personnel of World War II Australian Knights Bachelor Businesspeople from Adelaide People educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide