Preceded by Edmund Samuel Hayes |
Samuel Hercules Hayes 4th Baronet of Drumboe Castle 1860 - 1901 |
Succeeded by Edmund Francis Hayes |
Samuel was the son of Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes and Emily Pakenham.
He signed up to the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot on 13 March 1858 and became Lieutenant on 30 August 1859,[3] and promoted to Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards 27 February 1867. He retired from the army in 1872.
He was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for County Donegal, and served as High Sheriff of Donegal from 1884 to 1887.
He was educated at Harrow, and succeeded his father Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet as baronet in 1860 and inherited the family estate of Drumboe Castle in County Donegal.
Samuel married, on 25 July 1878, Honourable Alice Anne Hewitt, daughter of James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford and Lydia Lucy Wingfield Digby. They had no children.
He died in 1901 and was suceeded in the baronetcy by his brother Edmund Francis Hayes.
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