HAMMOND, HENRY (I605-1660), English divine, was born at Chertsey in Surrey on Aug. 18, 1605. He was educated at Eton and at Magdalen college, Oxford, and took orders in 1629. The earl of Leicester presented him to the living of Penshurst in Kent in 1633. In 1643 he was made archdeacon of Chichester. He was a member of the convocation of 164o, and was nominated one of the Westminster Assembly of divines. Instead of sitting at Westminster he took part in the unsuccessful rising at Tun bridge in favour of King Charles I., and was obliged to flee in disguise to Oxford, then the royal headquarters. He accompanied the king's commissioners to London, and afterwards to the Ux bridge convention in 1645, where he disputed with Richard Vines, one of the parliamentary envoys. He attended the king as chap lain during his captivity. When Charles was deprived of all his loyal attendants at Christmas 1647, Hammond returned to Oxford and was made subdean of Christ Church, but was removed from all his offices by the parliamentary visitors, who imprisoned him for ten weeks. Afterwards he was permitted to retire to the house of Philip Warwick at Clapham, Bedfordshire. In 165o, having regained his full liberty, Hammond betook himself to the friendly mansion of Sir John Pakington, at Westwood, in Worcestershire, where he died on the 25th of April 166o, on the eve of his prefer ment to the see of Worcester.
His Works (4 vols., 1674-84) contain an admirable biography of him by Bishop Fell, reprinted in C. Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Biography, vol. iv. (4th ed., 4 vols., 1853). See G. G. Perry, Life of Henry Hammond (1862) .