Born: January 6, 1719, Battle, Sussex, England.
Died: August 19, 1783, London, England.
Buried: Moravian Burial Ground (Sharon’s Garden), Chelsea, England.
Hammond was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge.
In 1743 he joined the Calvinistic Methodists, and in 1745, the Moravian Brethren.
Hammond left an autobiography in Greek, which, as of 1900, remained unpublished.
His original hymns and his translations from the Latin were published in his Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (London: W. Strahan, 1745).