the Rev. G. Hayward

Also called Hayward, G. Hayward, Mr Hayward, Rev. G. Hayward, The Lower Bingley starter

Of Lower Bingley, an overlooked, long-winded starter in the Sermon Handicap.

Connections

dealings

• has form scouted by Claude 1
• has form scouted by Eustace 1
• wins the Sermon Handicap^✦︎ 1
• is backed by the syndicate^⁂ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Arriving late for dinner at Twing Hall, Bertie sits next to Cynthia, who points out the local clergy and complains that Bingo keeps gazing at her oddly, which Bertie diagnoses as love.Chapter 13, the dining-room, as Hayward
2. Bertie cycles to Lower Bingley and clocks G. Hayward at thirty-five minutes fourteen seconds, apparently a certain winner.Chapter 13, Lower Bingley, as Hayward

Talked about, but not there

1. Sweltering in London, Bertie gets a letter from his cousin Eustace at Twing urging him to come down for a sporting event, with a baffling race-card of clergymen for a 'Sermon Handicap' on the back, and decides to go.Chapter 13, Bertie's flat, as Hayward
2. The syndicate backs Heppenstall at seven to one, he preaches thirty-six minutes and Steggles cuts his odds, and then the twins report that G. Hayward of Lower Bingley is a dark horse, so Bertie plans to ask Heppenstall to preach his Brotherly Love sermon.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as Hayward
3. Eustace phones to say Heppenstall has hay-fever and will be scratched, and Bertie has him hedge another fiver all round on G. Hayward.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as Hayward
4. Heppenstall's note reveals that Bates is preaching the Brotherly Love sermon at Gandle-by-the-Hill, on which Jeeves has a tenner thanks to inside information from Brookfield, and Bingo learns that Bates is engaged to Cynthia.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as Hayward