Sir John Macnamara Hayes, 1st Baronet ( – 19 July 1809) was a military physician who served as physician-extraordinary to the George, Prince of Wales, the future George IV of the United Kingdom.

Early life

Hayes was born in

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. He was a son of John Hayes and Margaret ( Macnamara) Hayes. His grandfather, Daniel Hayes, of Mayvore, was a captain in the army at the

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in the

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. He became a doctor of medicine of Rheims on 20 March 1784 before being admitted a Licentiate of the

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on 26 June 1786.

Career

He was a

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surgeon in the US from 1775 to 1783. In the 1790s, he served in the army in the

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. In 1784, Hayes was appointed physician-extraordinary to the George, Prince of Wales, the future George IV of the United Kingdom. He was also a physician at the

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from 1792 to 1794. For his medical service, he was awarded a

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in 1797. In 1806, Hayes was appointed inspector-general of the ordnance medical department at

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. This lasted until his death in 1809.

Personal life

Margaret Sarah Carpenter - Selina, Lady Fitzwygram

On 1 May 1787, Hayes was married to Anne White, the eldest daughter of wealthy

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merchant Henry White and his wife Eve ( Van Cortlandt) White (a daughter of

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). Anne was a sister of Vice-Admiral Sir

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, General Frederick Van Cortlandt White, Henry White Jr. (wife of their cousin, Anna Van Cortlandt), Frances White (wife of Dr.

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), and Margaret White (wife of

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). Together, Anne and John were the parents of: * Sir Thomas Pelham Hayes, 2nd Baronet (1794–1851), who married Caroline Emma ( Stoughton) Dickson, a daughter of Thomas Stoughton and widow of Lt.-Col. Hill Dickson, in 1840. * Sir John Warren Hayes, 3rd Baronet (1799–1896), who married Ellen Beauchamp, a daughter of George Edward Beauchamp (brother of

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) in 1844. * Anna-Maria Hayes, who married the Rev. Thomas Robertson, senior chaplain at

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, in 1824. * Selina Hayes, who married

Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet, FRS (25 September 1773 – 17 December 1843), born Robert Wigram, was a Director of the Bank of England and a Tory politician. Early life Fitzwygram was the eldest son of Lady Eleanor and Sir Robert Wigram, ...

. Sir John died in Camden from acute laryngitis on 19 July 1809 and was buried at St. James's, Piccadilly. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Thomas. After his death in 1851, he was succeeded by his brother John, who lived at

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. Upon John's death in 1896, the baronetcy became extinct.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, John 1750 births 1809 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain British Army regimental surgeons British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War Physicians of the Westminster Hospital Reims University (1548–1793) alumni