HAMMOND, Anthony, Esq. an ingenious English poet, descended from a good family of Somersham Place in Huntingdonshire, was born in 1668. 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.