HAMMOND, James, the son of Anthony Hammond, the "silver-tongued Hammond," as he was named by Bolingbroke, from the persuasive sweetness of his forensic eloquence, was born in 1710. He was educated at Westminster school, and became esquire to the Prince of Wales. He entered parliament as member for Truro in 1741, and died the following year. While still a very young man, he published his Love Elegies, correct and tasteful pastorals indeed, but cold and vapid. Dr Johnson was not too severe when he said, "these elegies have neither passion, nature, nor manners." The heroine, whom the author calls Delia, was a Miss Dashwood, whose scorn of the poet's love first drove him mad, and finally sent him to his grave at the early age of thirty-two. The lady, we are told, survived him for seven and thirty years without finding any one else either to marry or fall in love with her. Dr Johnson observes that the character which Hammond bequeathed her was not likely to attract courtship.