Edmund Hammond, 1st Baron Hammond

"Foreign Policy". Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1875.

Edmund Hammond, 1st Baron Hammond PC (25 June 1802 – 29 April 1890), was a British diplomat and civil servant. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1854 to 1873.

Background

Hammond was the third son and youngest child of George Hammond, a diplomat and civil servant, and Margaret, daughter of Andrew Allen.[1]

Political career

Hammond entered the Civil Service in 1823. He served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1854 to 1873, a post previously held by his father.[1] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1866[2] and elevated to the peerage as Baron Hammond, of Kirkella in the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in 1874.[3] He was a regular contributor in the House of Lords between 1875 and 1880.[4]

Family

Lord Hammond married Mary Frances, daughter of Major-General Lord Robert Kerr, in 1846. They had three daughters. Lady Hammond died in London in June 1888, aged 72. Lord Hammond survived her by two years and died in April 1890, aged 87. The barony died with him as he had no sons.[1] There is a marble bust of Lord Hammond by Henry Weekes at the Foreign Office, London.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 thepeerage.com Edmund Hammond, 1st and last Baron Hammond of Kirkella
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 23126. p. 3423. 12 June 1866.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 24071. p. 1453. 3 March 1874.
  4. ↑ Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Edmund Hammond
  5. ↑ www.artandarchitecture.org.uk Conway Collections
  6. ↑ gac.culture.gov.uk Government Art Collection
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Government offices
Preceded by
Henry Unwin Addington		 Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1854 – 1873 		Succeeded by
The Lord Tenterden
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Hammond
1874–1890 		Extinct
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