Sir Maurice Henry Weston Hayward (2 June 1868 – 31 August 1964) was a British colonial administrator who was the Acting governor of

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the '' de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the sec ...

during the

British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi language, Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Q ...

from 8 December 1923 to 10 December 1923. Hayward was the son of Rev.

Robert Baldwin Hayward Robert Baldwin Hayward (7 March 1829 – 2 February 1903) was an English educator and mathematician. Life Born on 7 March 1829, at Bocking, Essex, he was son of Robert Hayward by his wife Ann Baldwin; his father, from an old Quaker family, withdr ...

. He was educated at

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and at

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. He was knighted in the

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and appointed a Knight Commander of the

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(KCSI) in the

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Governors of Bombay 1868 births 1964 deaths Knights Bachelor Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India People educated at Harrow School Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge British people in colonial India {{UK-gov-bio-stub