Background
HAYTER, William Goodenough. Kansas City.MG. was born on August 1, 1906 in Oxford. Son of late Sir William Goodenough Hayter, K.B.E and Lady Hayter (nee Slessor).
diplomatist and college principal
HAYTER, William Goodenough. Kansas City.MG. was born on August 1, 1906 in Oxford. Son of late Sir William Goodenough Hayter, K.B.E and Lady Hayter (nee Slessor).
Winchester and New College, Oxford.
Served in Foreign Office 1930-1931, Vienna 1931, Moscow 1934, Foreign Office 1937, China 1938, Washington 1941, Foreign Office 1944. Assistant Under-Secretary of State 1948. Minister in Paris 1949-1953.
Ambassador to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1953-1957.
Deputy Under-Secretary of State 1957-1958. Warden of New College, Oxford 1958-1976.
Council Great Britain-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Association 1959-1976.
Married Iris Marie Hoare in 1938.