HAMMOND, Anthony, an English poet, deſcended from a good family of Somerſham Place, in Huntingdonſhire, was born in 1668. After having received a liberal education at St John's College, Cambridge, he was choſen member of parliament, ſoon diſtinguiſhed himſelf as a fine ſpeaker, and became a commiſſioner of the royal navy, which place, however, 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 alſo wrote the life of Walter Moyle, prefixed to his works, and died about the year 1726.