Arthur Hayter, 1st Baron Haversham

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Arthur Divett Hayter, 1st Baron Haversham of Bracknell (9 August 1835 – 10 May 1917), politician.

Hayter, only son of Sir William Goodenough Hayter, 1st Baronet, was born on 9 August 1835. After Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford, he joined the Grenadier Guards. He was Liberal MP for Wells (1865–8), for Bath (1873–85), and for Walsall (1893–95). Hayter was a reliable Liberal.

After succeeding his father as second baronet in 1878, he was a junior whip from 1880 to 1882 and was Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1882 to 1885. He chaired the public accounts committee from 1901 to 1905 and was created Baron Havershamof Bracknell in January 1906.

In 1866 he married Henrietta Hope and lived at South Hill Park, Berkshire. They had no children and his titles became extinct when he died on 10 May 1917.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir William Hayter, Bt Hedworth Jolliffe	Member of Parliament for Wells with Hedworth Jolliffe 1865–1868	Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Preceded by Donald Dalrymple Viscount Grey de Wilton	Member of Parliament for Bath with Viscount Grey de Wilton 1873–1874 Nathaniel Bousfield 1874–1880 Edmond Wodehouse 1880–1885 1873–1885	Succeeded by Edmond Wodehouse Robert Blaine
Preceded by Frank James	Member of Parliament for Walsall 1893–1895	Succeeded by Sydney Gedge
Political offices
Preceded by Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Financial Secretary to the War Office 1882–1885	Succeeded by Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Haversham 1906–1917	Extinct
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Hayter	Baronet (of South Hill Park, Berks) 1878–1917	Extinct