# Harrison Hayter

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**Harrison Hayter** (10 April 1825 – 5 May 1898) was a British engineer, participating in many significant railway construction projects in Britain and many harbour and dock constructions worldwide.

## Biography

Hayter was born at [Flushing](/source/Flushing,_Cornwall) near [Falmouth, Cornwall](/source/Falmouth,_Cornwall) the second son of Henry Hayter and his wife Eliza Jane Heylyn. He became a [Civil Engineer](/source/Civil_Engineer), and began his professional training on the [Stockton and Darlington Railway](/source/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway) and then in the construction of the [Great Northern Railway](/source/Great_Northern_Railway_(Great_Britain)). In 1856 he was living in Anglesey, while working on the construction of [Holyhead](/source/Holyhead) Harbour.

In 1857 he joined Sir [John Hawkshaw](/source/John_Hawkshaw) and was associated with most of his projects until Sir John retired in 1888. These including the [Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway](/source/Lancashire_and_Yorkshire_Railway), Charing Cross and Cannon Street Lines, [East London Railway](/source/East_London_Line), completion of [Inner Circle](/source/Inner_Circle_(London_Underground)), the [Severn Tunnel](/source/Severn_Tunnel) Railway and many overseas railways. The bridges he helped build included the [Charing Cross Railway Bridge](/source/Hungerford_Bridge), in 1864 he was awarded a [Telford Medal](/source/Telford_Medal) by the [Institution of Civil Engineers](/source/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers) for his paper 'On the Charing Cross Bridge',[1] the [Cannon Street Railway Bridge](/source/Cannon_Street_Railway_Bridge) and the [Clifton Suspension Bridge](/source/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge). Harbours were at [Alderney](/source/Alderney), [IJmuiden](/source/IJmuiden) (Holland) and Mornungao (India) and docks at [Hull](/source/Kingston_upon_Hull), [Penarth](/source/Penarth), [Maryport](/source/Maryport), [Fleetwood](/source/Fleetwood), [Dover](/source/Dover) and the South dock of the [West India Docks](/source/West_India_Docks). Other works included the [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam) Ship Canal, the foundation of the [Spithead Forts](/source/Palmerston_Forts,_Portsmouth), [River Witham](/source/River_Witham) middle level, Thames Valley drainages, and sewerage in [Brighton](/source/Brighton). When he died he was completing a large system of docks at [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires) (a dredged channel 14 miles (23 km) long and a 3.5-mile (5.6-kilometre) river frontage), where [James Murray Dobson](/source/James_Murray_Dobson) was the resident engineer.

Harrison was a [Lieutenant-Colonel](/source/Lieutenant-Colonel) in the [Engineer and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps](/source/Engineer_and_Railway_Staff_Corps) and served as President of the [Institution of Civil Engineers](/source/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers) between May 1892 and May 1893.[2]

He was buried on the eastern side of [Highgate Cemetery](/source/Highgate_Cemetery).[3]

Harrison was a younger brother of [Henry Heylyn Hayter](/source/Henry_Heylyn_Hayter) the Australian statistician. In 1854 he married Eliza Jane Walker (1827–1882), the eldest daughter of Rev Thomas Walker, Rector of [Offord D'Arcy](/source/Offord_D'Arcy), Huntingdonshire and a Lincolnshire landowner. They had eight children including Rev. [William Thomas Baring Hayter](/source/William_Thomas_Baring_Hayter) and Frances Jane Hayter who married [Falconer Madan](/source/Falconer_Madan) (1851–1935), Librarian of the [Bodleian Library](/source/Bodleian_Library) of the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford). He is the great great grandfather of [Paul Hayter](/source/Paul_Hayter).

## Publications

- *An Account of the Construction of large Breakwaters at Holyhead*.
- *Details of the Construction of Charing Cross Railway Bridge*
- *Construction of Amsterdam Ship Canal*

## References

1. *minutes of proceedings of the institution of civil engineers*. No. XXIII. p. 114.

1. Watson, Garth (1988). *The Civils*. London: Thomas Telford Ltd. p. 251. ISBN 0-7277-0392-7.

1. [*Engineering*](https://books.google.com/books?id=m_EwAQAAMAAJ&dq=harrison+hayter+highgate&pg=RA2-PA604)

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