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 He was gazetted a Q.C. in 1881, and knighted for his services as representative at the Conference at Washington on the Rules of Navigation in 1890. He was elected Recorder of London 8 Feb. 1892, and in 1899 was sworn in of the Privy Council. For some time he sat in Parliament for Cambridgeshire, and subsequently, 1892, for the Holborn Division of Finsbury. He died 9 March, 1900. Besides his other appointments he held the post of Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales, with whose friendship he was honoured.

HAMILTON, DUKE OF. See

Admitted 14 January, 1723-4.

Second son of Antony Hammond of Somersham, Huntingdon. He was educated at Westminster, where through a schoolfellow he was brought into connection with the Earl of Chesterfield, and through him to the Court circle of Frederick Prince of Wales. Through the latter's influence he entered Parliament; but he is now chiefly remembered for his Love Elegies, compositions inspired, it is said, by his passion for Catherine Dashwood, a Court beauty, and sometime lady of the bedchamber to Queen Charlotte. They are imitations of Tibullus, and obtained much reputation, though condemned by Johnson as "frigid pedantry" having "neither passion, nature, nor manners." They were published, with a preface by the Earl of Chesterfield, in 1743. Hammond died 7 June, 1742.

Admitted 17 November, 1668.

Son and heir of Richard Hampden of Hampden, co. Bucks, and grandson of John Hampden, the famous patriot. He was admitted the same day as his brother Richard, being then but twelve years of age. He was educated much abroad, and is spoken of by Barnet as "one of the learnedest gentlemen he ever knew." He first entered Parliament for Buckinghamshire in 1679 and acted with the Leader of the Opposition. He was charged with complicity in the Rye House Plot and committed to the Tower (1683). He subsequently pleaded guilty and was condemned to death, but pardoned on payment of a fine. He was again returned to Parliament, where he signalised himself by his zeal for popular rights. He failed, however, to be returned in 1690 and again in 1696, and his disappointments led to his death by his own hand 10 Dec. of that year. He left behind him several pamphlets of a political character.

Admitted 30 October, 1841.

Eldest son of James Hannen of Dulwich. He was educated at St Paul's School and Heidelberg University. He was called to the Bar 14 Jan. 1848. In 1863 he was appointed Junior Counsel to the Treasury, and in 1867 was engaged at the trial of the Manchester Fenians—Allen, Larkin, Goold, and Shore. In the following year he was made Serjeant-at-Law and a Judge of the Queen's Bench and knighted. In 1872 he was transferred to the Court