Lemprière Durell Hammond

Lemprière Durell Hammond (1881 - 1965) was the fourth Suffragan Bishop of Stafford [”Ecclesiastical News Bishop Suffragan Of Stafford” (Official Appointments and Notices)The Times Tuesday, Aug 29, 1939; pg. 13; Issue 48396; col A] . Educated at "St Augustine’s School Dewsbury" and "Lincoln Theological College" [“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X] , he was ordained in 1909 and began his career with a Curacy at Chatham [ [http://www.gparrett.btinternet.co.uk/chatnews/cnidx_r2.pdf Mentioned in “The Chatham News”] ] . He was then successively Vicar of "St Mary the Virgin" at Strood in Kent , Rural Dean of Walsall and a Canon Residentiary at Lichfield Cathedral before ascending to the Episcopate in 1939, a post he held for 19 years. A great cricketer [He played for Lincolnshire as a young man: “Wisden Cricketer’ Almanac”, 1965] ,his Times obituary described him as “a man most at home amongst the artisans of urban parishes [ “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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