Ernest Hammick

The Venerable Ernest Austen Hammick (3 January 1850 – 2 September 1920) was an English clergyman.

Early life

Hammick was born on 3 January 1850 at Milton Abbot. He was the fourth son of the Rev. Sir St Vincent Hammick, 2nd Baronet and Mary Alexander. Among his siblings were Frances Grace Hammick (wife of George Andrew Spottiswoode, youngest son of Andrew Spottiswoode), Sir St Vincent Hammick, 3rd Baronet (who married Penelope Beauclerk, daughter of Charles William Beauclerk), and Sir Murray Hammick, the acting Governor of Madras.

His paternal grandparents were Sir Stephen Hammick, 1st Baronet, a noted surgeon and physician, and Frances Turquand (daughter of London merchant Peter Turquand). His maternal grandparents were Robert Alexander, a member of the Council of India, and Grace ( Blacker) Alexander. to 1885 and at St John, Westminster, from 1885 to 1886.

Later life Returning to England, he was rector of Elford, Staffordshire from 1909 to 1917. Upon retirement, he lived on Manor Road, St Marychurch, Torquay in the ceremonial county of Devon.

Personal life On 28 September 1897, he married Mary Elizabeth Amy ( Rymer) Popham, daughter of John Rymer and widow of The Very Rev. William Henry Fleury Popham of Bray Hill, Natal, South Africa.