HAMMOND, George (younger son of William Hammond). b. 1763; matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 16 March 1780 aged 17, B.A. 1784, M.A. 1788, D.C.L. 1810; sec. to David Hartley in Paris when conducting peace negotiations with France and America 1783; chargé d’ affaires at Vienna 1788–90, at Madrid 1791; minister plenipo. to U.S. America 1791–5; under sec. foreign office, London 1795–1806, 1807–9; a comr. for British claims on France, Sep. 1814 to July 1828 when pensioned; connected with the Anti-Jacobin 1797 and the Quarterly Rev. 1809. d. 22 Portland place, London 22 April 1853 aged 90.
HAMMOND, James Lempriere. b. 1828; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, fellow, tutor and bursar; executor of Dr. Wm. Whewell 1866 when he superintended the additions to Trin. coll., completed under Whewell’s will at cost of £100,000 in 1868; assistant Endowed schools commissioner; assistant Charity commissioner for England and Wales; sec. to D. of Devonshire, chancellor of Cambridge; on the governing bodies of Christ’s hospital and Westminster school; author of Carmen Latinum. Cantab. 1849. d. Clyde villa, Hammersmith, Middlesex 23 July 1880 in 52 year. Times 28, 30, 31 July 1880.
HAMMOND, John (youngest son of Lempriere Hammond of Jersey). b. 1801; solicitor general of Jersey 1848–58; bailiff of Jersey and pres. of The States 16 Feb. 1858 to death. d. Royal court house, Jersey 14 Feb. 1880.
HAMOND, Sir Graham Eden, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Andrew Snape Hamond 1738–1828, captain R.N., 1 baronet). b. Newman st. London 30 Dec. 1779; entered R.N. 1785, captain 30 Nov. 1798; present at battle of Copenhagen 1801; knight commander of Tower and Sword 1825; commander in chief on South American station 1834–8; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; admiral 22 Jany. 1847, admiral of the fleet 10 Nov. 1862. d. Norton lodge, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1862.
HAMOND, Horace Edward. Cornet 1 life guards 18 Feb. 1828, lieut. 1831, sold out 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to king of Hanover some time; precis writer to earl of Malmesbury sec. of state foreign affairs 28 Feb. 1852; consul at Cherbourg 1 April 1852 to death; K.H. d. 8 Feb. 1876.
HAMPDEN, John (brother of Right Rev. R. D. Hampden). b. 27 Oct. 1798; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox.; collector of pictures, coins and medals; collected materials for life of John Hampden the patriot. d. 4 Clarence ter. Warwick st. Leamington 13 Nov. 1860. Numismatic Chronicle, xxi, Proceedings 11–12 (1861).
HAMPDEN, John (1 son of Rev. John Hampden, R. of Hinton Martel, Dorset 1829–47). Matric. from St. Mary hall, Ox. 14 Feb. 1839 aged 19; author of The rampart of steel or a fancys (sic) for a permanent coast militia and an army of reserve, Canterbury 1852; John Hampden’s Monthly. The truth seeker’s oracle and scriptural science review, Nos. 1–3 May-July 1876; Description of J. Hampden’s improvements in artillery 1876; The new manual of Biblical Cosmography 1877; The earth in its creation and the portion adapted to man’s occupation 1880; published John Hampden’s Circular map of the world 1875; John Hampden’s Chronometrical Dial-plate 1876; edited Cosmos. A Geographical Review 1883. d. from bronchitis at 3 Park st. Croydon 22 Jany. 1891. Daily Graphic 27 Jany. 1891 p. 6 col. 2.
Note.—He inserted an advertisement in Scientific Opinion 12 Jany. 1870 offering £500 to anyone proving that the earth is round. This challenge was accepted by Alfred Russel Wallace; Hampden and Wallace each deposited £500 in the hands of John Henry Walsh who decided in favour of Wallace as having “proved the curvature to and fro of the Bedford Level canal between Witney bridge and Welsh’s dam (6 miles) to the extent of 5 feet more or less.” Walsh paid the £1000 to Wallace 1 April 1870 although Hampden instructed him not to do so, Hampden brought an action against Walsh to recover his £500, which was tried in the Queen’s Bench division 17 Jany. 1876 when the judges held that Hampden having demanded his deposit money back before it had been paid over by Walsh, was entitled to judgment. Law Reports i, Q.B. division (1876) 189–98; Experimental proofs that the surface of standing water is not convex but horizontal with an examination of the question, Is the earth a globe or a plane? between J. Hampden and A. R. Wallace. By Parallax [Samuel Birley Rowbotham] 1870.
HAMPDEN, Right Rev. Renn Dickson (eld. son of Renn Hampden, colonel of militia). b. Barbadoes 29 March 1793; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., double first class 1813, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D. 1833, fellow 1814–7, tutor 1832, Bampton lecturer 1832; C. of Newton near Bath 1816; principal of St. Mary hall, Ox., April 1833–48; professor of moral philosophy 1834–36; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. and regius professor of divinity 17 Feb. 1836 to 1848; R. of Ewelme, Oxfs. 1836–48; bp. of Hereford 28 Dec. 1847 to death, his election opposed by 13 bishops and the dean of Hereford, consecrated at Lambeth palace 26 March 1848; author of The Scholastic philosophy considered in its relation to Christian theology 1833 and of essays, lectures, sermons and charges. d. 107 Eaton place, London 23 April 1868. Memorials by his daughter (1871), portrait; Mozley’s Reminiscences, i, 350–86 (1882); I.L.N. xii, 22 (1848), portrait.
HAMPSON, John. b. 1790; master of Bury st. academy, Manchester 1810–60; author of The Monitory and Epistolary Exercise book for schools 1841. d. Ardwick, Manchester, Oct. 1878 in 88 year.