{{short description|English clergyman and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} '''Octavius Hammond''' (19 March 1835 – 22 August 1908) was an English clergyman and a first-class cricketer who played for Cambridge University between 1855 and 1857.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36935/36935.html| title = Octavius Hammond| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 1 June 2014}}</ref> He was born in Newmarket, Suffolk and died at Herringswell, also in Suffolk.
Hammond played cricket for Cambridge University in eight matches that are now considered to be first-class across three seasons: three of the games were part of the University match series against Oxford University for which participants are awarded a Blue.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36935/First-Class_Matches.html | title = First-class Matches played by Octavius Hammond| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 1 June 2014}}</ref> He also played twice for a Cambridge Town Club ''aka'' Cambridgeshire side in first-class games and once for a team representing "The Gentlemen of England". A middle-order batsman, his best first-class innings was a score of 52 not out for the University side against the Cambridge Town Club in 1857.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1074.html | title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v Cambridge Town Club | date = 28 May 1857 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 1 June 2014}}</ref>
==Career outside cricket== Hammond was a grandson of Charles Hammond (1749–1837) who founded a bank in Newmarket (taken over by Barclays Bank in 1905).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newmarketshops.info/No.58-60_High_Street.html |title=No.58-60 High Street Newmarket |website=Newmarket Shops History}}</ref> He was educated at Uppingham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri03univuoft#page/218/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Octavius Hammond | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 3| page = 219 | publisher = Cambridge, University Press | accessdate = 1 June 2014}}</ref> On graduation, he was ordained as a Church of England priest and from 1867 to his death he was the rector of Herringswell in Suffolk.<ref name="venn"/> Shortly after his installation at Herringswell, and soon after a minor church renovation at St Ethelbert's Church, which was of 11th century origin, the thatched roof of the church caught fire during a Sunday morning service and the entire building was destroyed apart from the outer walls and the tower; contemporary reports note that the rector supervised the rescue of the church organ which he had himself donated.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://herringswell.onesuffolk.net/assets/Folder/church.pdf | title = Destruction of St Ethelbert's Church, Herringswell | publisher = www.onesuffolk.net | accessdate = 1 June 2014 | archive-date = 5 June 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140605051447/http://herringswell.onesuffolk.net/assets/Folder/church.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> Hammond organised the rebuilding and engaged the services of the distinguished London architect Arthur Blomfield.
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