William Hammond (died 1685)
William Hammond (c.1635–c.1685) was an English gentleman and Grand Tourist.[1] He has been identified since 1792 as the William Hammond who was an original Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
Background
The Hammond family had been established Kent landowners since 1551.
Anthony Hammond (1608–1661)
Anthony Hammond of Wilburton (identified also as of St Albans's Court, Kent) was son of Sir William Hammond (1579–1615) of St Albans Court. William Hammond (born 1614) the poet was his brother. Their mother Elizabeth Archer or Aucher, daughter of Margaret Sandys, was the granddaughter of Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York.[5] Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Baronet was therefore his great-uncle.[6] The main seat of Sir Miles Sandys was Wilburton.[7] Elizabeth Aucher was sister of Sir Anthony Aucher, Member of Parliament (withdrawn) for Rochester.[8]
Involved in the
Anthony Hammond married Anne Digges, daughter of Dudley Digges, and they had four sons: William, Anthony, Dudley and Edward and numerous daughters including Hester, Frances, and Jane.[13] In 1661 he died at Wilburton.[14] He has been credited as the author of The Gentleman's Exercise (1662) by A. H., a supplement to the falconry manual of Simon Latham.[15][16]
The second son, Anthony Hammond, bought Somersham Place, a former episcopal palace of the bishops of Ely, around 1660; or leased a wing of what was a building falling to ruins. He died there in 1680.[17][18] He was father of Anthony Hammond (1668–1738) the Member of Parliament, who was also a Conservator of the Bedford Level.[19]
Early life
William Hammond was the son of Anthony Hammond (1608–1661). He matriculated at
Tour 1655 to 1658
Hammond based his Tour around extended over-winter stays in Paris. In 1656 he went from there to
In a series of letters, most apparently surviving, Hammond wrote in detail to his parents about his travels.
Hammond had a companion "Cosin Bowyer" for some of the way, able to lend him money, and "Heir of Camberwell". Following Brennan, this was a son of
Later life
According to Alumni Oxonienses, he may be the William Hammond who entered Gray's Inn, in 1663.[20] Hammond mentions his chamber, in Gray's Inn.[32] William Hammond, Esq. occurs as an "Old Adventurer" in a petition to Charles II concerned with the Great Level of the Fens.[33] John Collins commented in a 1677 letter to John Wallis that Hammond was a "great lover" of mathematics.[34]
Family
Hammond married, as her second husband, Elizabeth, daughter of
"Cosin Gabriell Richards"
A possible relative, Gabriel Richards, is mentioned in William Hammond's letters as a "cousin".[39] Some unresolved issues remain about the putative family connection.
William Hammond FRS
Hunter gives as definite information on William Hammond the Fellow of the Royal Society: the date of admission in 1661; the description "Kentish gentleman"; and activity in the Society to 1681. The suggestion that William Hammond FRS, of Kent, had travelled abroad as education for a future physician occurred in the 1792 Topographical Miscellanies of
Legacy
Hammond's letters from his tour survive in two copies. One set, which passed through the hands of
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4724-6072-1.
- ^ E. S. de Beer, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr. 1950), pp. 172–192, at p. 182. Published by: Royal Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/531317
- ^ a b John Burke (1834). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. H. Colburn. pp. 130–1.
- ^ "Nonington by W. H. Ireland, published in 1829 – The Old Parish of Nonington". Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12163. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Sandys, Sir Miles, 1st Bt. (1563–1645), of Wilburton Parsonage, Wilburton, Isle of Ely, Cambs., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-521-29748-6.
- ^ "Aucher (Agar, Archer), Sir Anthony (c.1586–1637), of Bishopsbourne, Kent, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
- ^ Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, with Communications Made to the Society. George Bell and Sons. 1937. p. 151.
- ^ Bedford Level Corporation; Charles Nalson Cole (1761). A Collection of Laws which Form the Constitution of the Bedford Level Corporation: Together with 'an Introductory History Thereof. H. Woodfall and W. Strahan, law printers to the King. p. 24.
- ISBN 978-0-85115-321-6.
- ^ John Burke; Bernard Burke (1841). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster & Geary. p. 160.
- ^ Sir Egerton Brydges (1808). Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. p. 383.
- ^ Henry George BOHN (1848). A Catalogue of Books. Harrison & Company. p. 6.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4724-6072-1.
- ^ W. H. Bernard Saunders and Walter Debenham Sweeting, editors (April 1892). Fenland Notes & Queries. Vol. 2. Peterborough: G. C. Caster. p. 85. Retrieved 19 April 2016 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ "Hammond, Anthony (1668–1738), of Somersham Place, Hunts; Lidlington, Beds.; Piccadilly and Albemarle Street, Westminster, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ a b 'Haak-Harman', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 626–651 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp626-651 [accessed 9 March 2016].
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- ^ "Bowyer, Sir Edmund (1613–81), of Camberwell Green, Surr., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-4724-6072-1.
- ^ 'Bludworth-Brakell', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 142–170. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp142-170 [accessed 21 April 2016].
- ^ "Bowyer, Anthony (1633–1709), of Camberwell Green, Surr. and the Inner Temple, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-4724-6072-1.
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- ^ Samuel A. Wells (1830). History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens Called Bedford Level. pp. 357 and 360.
- ISBN 978-0-85115-506-7.
- ^ Arthur Collins; Sir Egerton Brydges (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son. p. 484.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18160. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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- ^ Sir Bernard Burke (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 578.
- ISBN 978-1-4724-6072-1.
- ^ Michael Hunter, The Social Basis and Changing Fortunes of an Early Scientific Institution: An Analysis of the Membership of the Royal Society, 1660–1685, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jul. 1976), pp. 9–114, at p. 43. Published by: Royal Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/531552
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