George Hamond (1620–1705) was an English

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nonconformist minister.

Life

Hamond was educated at

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, and graduated M.A. He studied also (perhaps previously) at

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, where he was elected a Scholar and attracted the notice of Archbishop

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. His first known charge was the vicarage of

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, from which William Adams had been dispossessed during the Commonwealth. In 1660 he was admitted to the rectory of St. Peter's and vicarage of Trinity, Dorchester. Hamond was ejected by the

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, his successor being appointed on 30 June 1663. After the

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of 1672, a

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meeting-house was built at

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, and Hamond was associated with George Newton as its minister. He also kept a boarding-school, to which several persons of rank sent their sons. The Taunton meeting-house was wrecked after

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(1685), and Hamond left London. Here he became colleague to

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at Armourers' Hall,

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, and on Steele's death (16 November 1692) sole pastor. In 1699 he succeeded William Bates as one of the Tuesday lecturers at

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, and died in October 1705. His congregation was probably already extinct.

Works

Hamond published: * ''A Good Minister'', 1693, a funeral sermon for Richard Steel, praised by

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. * ''A Discourse of Family Worship'', 1694. Also a sermon in '' The Morning Exercise at Cripplegate'', vol. vi. (1690); and prefaces, appearing after his death, to ''Discourse of Angels'', 1701, and ''Modest Enquiry into . . . Guardian Angel'', 1702, both by Richard Sanders.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamond, George 1620 births 1705 deaths Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Ejected English ministers of 1662 English Presbyterian ministers Scholars of Trinity College Dublin