Lemprière Durell Hammond (1881–1965) was the fourth Suffragan Bishop of Stafford.
[1] Educated at St Augustine’s School Dewsbury and Lincoln Theological College,[2] he was ordained in 1909 and began his career with a curacy at Chatham.
[3] He was then successively Vicar of St Mary the Virgin at Strood in Kent, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Dartford, Rural Dean of Walsall and a Canon Residentiary at Lichfield Cathedral before being consecrated to the Episcopate in 1939, a post he held for 19 years.
A great cricketer,[4] his Times obituary described him as “a man most at home amongst the artisans of urban parishes[5]”.
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