Samuel Hammond

Samuel Hammond D.D. (died 10 December 1665, in Hackney) was a Church of England minister, and later a nonconformist.

Biography Hammond is said to have been a ‘butcher's son of York’, although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes no butchers of his surname on the lists of freemen of that city.

In 1638 Hammond entered King's College, Cambridge as a sizar.

At the Restoration he was ejected from his charge at Newcastle, and retired to Hamburg as minister to the society of merchants there. Lord-Chancellor Hyde objected to renew the charter of the society of merchants, which was nearly expired, if they retained Hammond, and he was compelled to leave. He went first to Stockholm, where a merchant named Cutler befriended him. The historian Edmund Calamy mentions with praise a letter from Stockholm as having ‘something of the spirit and style of the martyrs,’ though it was apparently never printed. Hammond then proceeded to Danzig, and finally to London, taking up his abode in Hackney.

He died on 10 December 1665.