George Hamond (1620–1705) was an English ejected nonconformist minister.

Life

Hamond was educated at

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, and graduated M.A. He studied also (perhaps previously) at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

, where he was elected a Scholar and attracted the notice of Archbishop

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. His first known charge was the vicarage of

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, from which William Adams had been dispossessed during the Commonwealth. In 1660 he was admitted to the rectory of St. Peter's and vicarage of Trinity, Dorchester. Hamond was ejected by the

Act of Uniformity 1662 The Act of Uniformity 1662 ( 14 Cha. 2. c. 4) is an act of the Parliament of England. (It was formerly cited as 13 & 14 Cha. 2. c. 4, by reference to the regnal year when it was passed on 19 May 1662.) It prescribed the form of public prayer ...

, his successor being appointed on 30 June 1663. After the

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of 1672, a

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meeting-house was built at

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, and Hamond was associated with George Newton as its minister. He also kept a boarding-school, to which several persons of rank sent their sons. The Taunton meeting-house was wrecked after

Monmouth's rebellion The Monmouth Rebellion in June 1685 was an attempt to depose James II, who in February had succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland. Dissident Protestants led by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, eldest ill ...

(1685), and Hamond left London. Here he became colleague to

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at Armourers' Hall,

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, and on Steele's death (16 November 1692) sole pastor. In 1699 he succeeded William Bates as one of the Tuesday lecturers at

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, and died in October 1705. His congregation was probably already extinct.

Works

Hamond published: * ''A Good Minister'', 1693, a

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for Richard Steel, praised by Charles Bulkley. * ''A Discourse of Family Worship'', 1694. Also a sermon in '' The Morning Exercise at Cripplegate'', vol. vi. (1690); and prefaces, appearing after his death, to ''Discourse of Angels'', 1701, and ''Modest Enquiry into ... Guardian Angel'', 1702, both by Richard Sanders.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamond, George 1620 births 1705 deaths Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Ejected English ministers of 1662 Scholars of Trinity College Dublin 17th-century English Presbyterian ministers