Career
The "Book of Dignities" was a modernised form of Robert Beatson"s "Political Index", but omits the lists of holders of many important offices. He also edited Samuel Lewis" "Topographical Dictionaries". His name is used in the "Haydn Series" of dictionaries, which are on the same lines as those compiled by him.
He does not, however, appear to have taken any part in their actual compilation.
They are the "Universal Index of Biography", edited by J. B. Payne, 1870. "Bible Dictionary", edited by C. Boutell, 1871 (2nd edition, 1878).
"Dictionary of Popular Medicine and Hygiene", edited by Doctor East. Lankester, 1874 (2nd edition, 1878). Foreign a short time before his death, on 18 January 1856, Haydn had been in receipt of a small pension of £25 granted by the government.
lieutenant was continued to his widow.
