HAMMOND

Edmund Hammond , 1 Baron ( 3 son of George Hammond, d. 1853 ). b. London 25 June 1802; ed. at Eton, Harrow and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, scholar 1824–8, fellow 1828–46; clerk privy council office 1823–4; in foreign office 1824, chief of the oriental department 1830–41; permanent under sec. of state for foreign affairs 10 April 1854, retired 10 Oct. 1873 on his full pay of £2500; P.C. 11 June 1866; cr. baron Hammond of Kirk Ella, Kingston-on-Hull 22 Feb. 1874; a ured Lord Granville that the world was profoundly at peace 27 June 1870, French and Pru ian war broke out 15 July. d. Mentone, France 29 April 1890. I.L.N. lxiii , 413, 414 (1873), portrait ; Graphic 24 May 1890 p. 583, portrait .