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HAMMOND, THOMAS, of Wiltshire; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1583, matr. 12 Jun 1584, aged 18, Westminster Student to c. 1598; BA 1587; MA 1590 (incorp. Cambridge 1597); ordained; Vicar of Dilwyn, Herefordshire 1597; will proved PCC 22 Aug 1617 (as Vicar of Dilwyn, surname spelled Hamond).

HAMMOND, THOMAS; b.; at school under Markham (Bentham, Works, x, 30); a contemporary of Jeremy Bentham (qv), who describes him as a “dull boy” and says that he afterwards “became a member of the College of Cursitors”; one of the Cursitors for Somerset, Lincolnshire and city of Lincoln, from 17 Jun 1769 (still 1783), having previously been a clerk in the Cursitors’ Office; Assistant, Corporation of Cursitors (London Calendar 1793) (will proved PCC 9 Jul 1799, of Cursitors’ Office).

HAMMOND, THOMAS, elder son of Anthony Hammond MP, Somersham Place, Huntingdonshire, a Commissioner of the Navy, and Jane, sister of Gould Clarges (qv); b. ; at school under Freind four years (R. F. Scott, ed. , Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, pt iii, 11); in under school list 1715; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 24 Jun 1717, aged 16, matr. 1717; m. Elizabeth Adams; d. 1758 [perhaps Thomas Hammond, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, will proved PCC 2 Aug 1759]

HAMMOND, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 12 Jun 1781; left 1783.

HAMOND, D. F.; b.; name up School 1807.

HAMOND, HENRY CARR WILLIAM, elder son of Rev. Henry Hamond, Rector of Widford, Herts., and Sophia, dau. of Rev. Dr. --- Edridge [perhaps Rev. Charles Lucas Edridge DD, Rector of Shipdam, Norfolk, and Minister of Oxford Chapel, Vere Street, London]; b. 18 Jun 1834; adm. 29 Jan 1847 (G); had his nose broken with “a fair-showing book” in a scrimmage up Grant’s (Markham, Recollections of a Town Boy, 75); Ensign, 46th Foot 20 Jan 1854; Lieut., 8 Dec 1854; Capt., 6 Jun 1859; served Crimean War; d. 4 Aug 1870.

HAMPDEN, GEORGE ROBERT, 5TH EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, eldest son of Hon. George Vere Hobart, Governor of Grenada, [see under Hobart, George (qv)] and his first wife Jane, dau. of Horace Cataneo, Leeds, Yorks.; b. 1 May 1789; in school lists May and Oct 1803; left 1807; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1809; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Jan 1810; MP Mitchell 1812 – Feb 1813; succ. uncle as 5th Earl of Buckinghamshire 4 Feb 1816; assumed surname of Hampden in lieu of Hobart 5 Oct 1824, on inheriting the Buckinghamshire estates of John Hampden-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Hampden (qv), under the terms of the will of their common relative John Hampden (d. 1754); m. 3 May 1819 Anne Glover, Keppel Street, London, natural dau. of Sir Arthur Pigott, Kt., MP, Attorney-General; d. 1 Feb 1849.

HAMPDEN, THOMAS, 2ND VISCOUNT HAMPDEN, eldest son of Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden (qv); b. 11 Sep 1746; at school under Markham (obituary notice, GM 1824); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Apr 1763 (as Thomas Trevor); DCL 1773; travelling in Italy 1770-2, 1785, 1788; assumed surname of Hampden; MP Lewes 1768-74; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Trevor 22 Aug 1783; GCH 1 Apr 1816; inherited father’s estates in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and the Sussex estates of the Trevors of Glynde; DL Bedfordshire 1803; m. 1st, 13 Jun 1768 Catherine, dau. of Gen. David Graeme MP, Braco, Perthshire, Secretary to Queen Charlotte and Comptroller, Queen Charlotte’s Household; m. 2nd, 11 Jun 1805 Jane Maria, dau. of George Brown, Ellistoun, Scotland; d. 20 Aug 1824.

HAMPDEN-TREVOR, JOHN, 3RD VISCOUNT HAMPDEN, son of Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden (qv); b. 24 Feb 1748/9; in school list 1764; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1767, Canoneer Student 23 Jun 1767 – void by marriage 9 Aug 1773; BA 1770; MA 1773; Grand Tour (Italy) 1773, with John Eckersall (qv); Minister Plenipotentiary to Elector Palatine at Munich 8 Apr 1780-3; Minister to Sardinian Court at Turin 1783-9, Minister Plenipotentiary 16 Jun 1789-98; Privy Councillor 27 Sep 1797; succ. brother as 3rd Viscount Hampden 20 Aug 1824; edited his father’s Poemata Hampdeniana, 1792; DL Sussex 1778, Bedfordshire 1803; member, Society of Dilettanti 1800; m. 9 Aug 1773 Harriot, only child of Rev. Daniel Burton DD, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Rector of Slapton, Bucks.; d. 9 Sep 1824. DNB.

HAMPDEN-TREVOR, ROBERT, 1ST VISCOUNT HAMPDEN, eldest son of Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, subsequently Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council, and his second wife Anne, widow of Sir Robert Bernard, Bart., and dau. of Col. Robert Weldon; b. 17 Feb 1705/6; ? at school under Freind (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1770) [Russell Barker & Stenning make this identification, but they print the Steward’s name for that year as Hon. Robert Trevor-Hampden, a description not appropriate for 1st Viscount Hampden at that date, and it may well be that there is an error in the Christian name and that the Steward was his son Thomas Hampden, 2nd Viscount Hampden (qv)]; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1722/3; BA 1725; Fellow, All Souls Coll. 20 Nov 1725; a clerk, Secretary of State’s Office Nov 1729 – c. 1733; Secretary to Legation, The Hague 1734-9, Envoy Extraordinary there 1739, Minister Plenipotentiary 24 Jun 1741 – Nov 1746; contested Oxford University at by-election Feb 1736/7; a Commissioner of the Revenue (I) 1750; assumed additional surname of Hampden 22 Feb 1754, on inheriting estates of his distant kinsman John Hampden, Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire; joint Postmaster-General 2 Jun 1759 – 19 Jul 1765; succ. half-brother as 4th Baron Trevor 27 Sep 1764; created Viscount Hampden 8 Jun 1776; FRS 13 Dec 1764; FSA 29 Feb 1776; a good scholar and collector of drawings and prints; author Poemata Hampdeniana, published posthumously 1792; m. 6 Feb 1743 Constantia, dau. of Pieter Antoni de Huybert, Heer van Kruiningen, Netherlands; d. 22 Aug 1783. DNB. ]