Philip Hawford alias Ballard (died 11 August 1557) was the parish priest (c.1536 – 1557) at Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire.
[1] Philip Hawford became Abbot of Evesham Abbey by preferment.
Evidently he had bribed Cromwell for his preferment, for in May 1538 William Petre wrote to Thomas Wriothesley that 'touching Mr Cromwell's matter the abbot says it shall be paid to-morrow morning'.
And an entry of 400 marks from the abbot is found in Cromwell's account for that month.
[citation needed] He was at some point the cellarer at Evesham Abbey before the Dissolution of the Monasteries.