HAMMOND (Anthony, esq.) an ingenious English poet, descended from a good family of Somerset Place in Huntingdonshire, was born in 1608. After a liberal education at St John's college, Cambridge, he was chosen member of parliament, and soon distinguished himself as a fine speaker. He became a commissioner of the royal navy, which place he quitted in 1712. He published "A miscellany of original poems by the most eminent hands;" in which himself, as appears by the poems marked with his own name, had no inconsiderable share. He wrote the life of Walter Moyle, esq.; prefixed to his works. He was the intimate friend of that gentleman, and died about the year 1726.