Sir John Hayes, 1st Baronet
Sir John Macnamara Hayes, 1st Baronet was a military physician who served as physician-extraordinary to George, Prince of Wales, the future George IV of the United Kingdom.
Early life
Hayes was born in Limerick, Ireland. He was a son of John Hayes and Margaret Hayes. His grandfather, Daniel Hayes, of Mayvore, was a captain in the army at the Battle of the Boyne in the Nine Years' War.He became a doctor of medicine of Rheims on 20 March 1784 before being admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians on 26 June 1786.
Career
He was a British Army surgeon in the US from 1775 to 1783. In the 1790s, he served in the army in the French Revolutionary Wars. 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 Westminster Hospital from 1792 to 1794.For his medical service, he was awarded a baronetcy in 1797. In 1806, Hayes was appointed inspector-general of the ordnance medical department at Woolwich. This lasted until his death in 1809.
Personal life
On 1 May 1787, Hayes was married to Anne White, the eldest daughter of wealthy New York City merchant Henry White and his wife Eve White. Anne was a sister of Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White, General Frederick Van Cortlandt White, Henry White Jr., Frances White, and Margaret White. Together, Anne and John were the parents of:- Sir Thomas Pelham Hayes, 2nd Baronet, who married Caroline Emma Dickson, a daughter of Thomas Stoughton and widow of Lt.-Col. Hill Dickson, in 1840.
- Sir John Warren Hayes, 3rd Baronet, who married Ellen Beauchamp, a daughter of George Edward Beauchamp in 1844.
- Anna-Maria Hayes, who married the Rev. Thomas Robertson, senior chaplain at Calcutta, in 1824.
- Selina Hayes, who married Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet
- Margaret Augusta Hayes.