# Octavius Hammond > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Octavius_Hammond > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Octavius_Hammond.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_Hammond > Source revision: 1323354494 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/clergyman) and a [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket)er who played for [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club) between 1855 and 1857.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36935/36935.html| title = Octavius Hammond| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 1 June 2014}} He was born in [Newmarket](/source/Newmarket%2C_Suffolk), [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk) and died at [Herringswell](/source/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](/source/University_Match_(cricket)) series against [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) for which participants are awarded a [Blue](/source/Blue_(university_sport)).{{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}} He also played twice for a [Cambridge Town Club](/source/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](/source/Cambridge_Town_Club) in 1857.{{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}} ==Career outside cricket== Hammond was a grandson of Charles Hammond (1749–1837) who founded a bank in Newmarket (taken over by [Barclays Bank](/source/Barclays_Bank) in 1905).{{cite web |url=http://www.newmarketshops.info/No.58-60_High_Street.html |title=No.58-60 High Street Newmarket |website=Newmarket Shops History}} He was educated at [Uppingham School](/source/Uppingham_School) and [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge).{{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}} On graduation, he was ordained as a [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) priest and from 1867 to his death he was the [rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of Herringswell in Suffolk. 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.{{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 }} Hammond organised the rebuilding and engaged the services of the distinguished London architect [Arthur Blomfield](/source/Arthur_Blomfield). ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Octavius}} Category:1835 births Category:1908 deaths Category:English cricketers Category:Cambridge University cricketers Category:Cambridge Town Club cricketers Category:Gentlemen of England cricketers Category:People from Newmarket, Suffolk Category:People educated at Uppingham School Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Category:19th-century English Anglican priests --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Octavius Hammond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_Hammond) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_Hammond?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.