Hammond, HENRY

Hammond, HENRY, English divine and controversial writer, was born at Chertsey, Surrey, August 18, 1605, and educated at Eton, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1633 he was presented to the rectory of Penshurst, in Kent, and ten years later was made archdeacon of Chichester. But his loyal adhesion to the cause of Charles I. cost him his living; yet he officiated as chaplain to the king till his attendants were dismissed in 1647. Hammond then returned to Oxford, and was chosen sub-dean of Christchurch. Deprived by the parliamentary commissioners in 1648, he shortly after retired to Westwood in Worcestershire, where he died April 25, 1660. His celebrated work, the Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament, was published in 1653 (new ed. 4 vols. 1845). His collected works with biography were published in 4 vols. 1674-84. His Paranesis was edited by Manning in 1841. The Sermons were reprinted in 1851, the Minor Theological Works in 1849, both in the Oxford Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology. Bishop Fell's Life (1661) is reprinted in Wordsworth's Eccles. Biog., vol. iv.