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Lemprière Durell Hammond (1881–1965) was the fourth Suffragan Bishop of Stafford.

Educated at St Augustine’s School Dewsbury and Lincoln Theological College, he was ordained in 1909 and began his career with a curacy at Chatham. He was then successively Vicar of St Mary the Virgin at Strood in Kent, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Dartford, Rural Dean of Walsall and a Canon Residentiary at Lichfield Cathedral before being consecrated to the Episcopate in 1939, a post he held for 19 years. A great cricketer, his Times obituary described him as “a man most at home amongst the artisans of urban parishes”.

Notes

1. ”Ecclesiastical News Bishop Suffragan Of Stafford” (Official Appointments and Notices) The Times Tuesday, Aug 29, 1939; pg. 13; Issue 48396; col A
2. “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
3. Mentioned in “The Chatham News” Archived February 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
4. He played for Lincolnshire as a young man: “Wisden Cricketer’ Almanac”, 1965
5. “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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