He was a Conservative politician and served under the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1866 to 1868.
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Lady Antonia Fraser and Rachel Billington, daughters of the seventh Earl, are both prominent authors.
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He was a minor playwright and poet and also sat as a member of the Republic of Ireland Senate between 1946 and 1948.
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Hayes was born in 1840 the son of Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Emily Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham, a son of the Earl of Longford.