image left : Harrison Hayter - an engraving dating from 1888 by W. H. Gibbs from a book by Thomas A. Walker, contractor, Penarth Dock. [529] [20170725]

The following text is taken from a book published in 1899 named 'Men and Women of the Time - A Dictionary of Contemporaries' [582]

'Hayter, Harrison, civil engineer, Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Fellow and Associate of King's College, London, and Lieut.-Colonel Engineer and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps, was born near Falmouth on April 10, 1825, and is the son of the late Henry Hayter, Esq., of Eden Vale, Wiltshire, and nephew of the late Right Hon. Sir William Goodenough Hayter, Bart. After receiving a classical and mathematical education, he entered (in 1840) the Applied Department of King's College, London, and went through the prescribed three years' curriculum with distinction.

Upon leaving King's College he commenced his professional training on the Stockton to Darlington Railway ( now a part of the North-Eastern system), and was afterwards engaged in the construction of the Great Northern Railway. In 1857 he joined Sir John Hawkshaw, Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, as his Chief Assistant, and, in 1870, he became his partner - a long professional association which was severed only by the retirement of Sir John Hawkshaw from business at the end of 1888.