Lemprière Hammond

Lemprière Durell Hammond (1881–1965) was the fourth Suffragan Bishop of Stafford.[1]

Educated at St Augustine’s School Dewsbury and Lincoln Theological College,[2] he was ordained in 1909 and began his career with a curacy at Chatham.[3] He was then successively Vicar of St Mary the Virgin at Strood in Kent, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Dartford, Rural Dean of Walsall and a Canon Residentiary at Lichfield Cathedral before being consecrated to the Episcopate in 1939, a post he held for 19 years. A great cricketer,[4] his Times obituary described him as “a man most at home amongst the artisans of urban parishes[5]”.

Notes
  1. ”Ecclesiastical News Bishop Suffragan Of Stafford” (Official Appointments and Notices) The Times Tuesday, Aug 29, 1939; pg. 13; Issue 48396; col A
  2. “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. Mentioned in “The Chatham News” Archived February 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. He played for Lincolnshire as a young man: “Wisden Cricketer’ Almanac”, 1965
  5. “The Rt. Rev. L. D. Hammond Former Bishop Of Stafford (Obituaries)” The Times Thursday, Jan 07, 1965; pg. 12; Issue 56213; col E


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