John
Lawrence Hammond, the son of a vicar, was born in 1872. Educated at
Bradford Grammar School and Oxford University,
he edited the Speaker journal
between 1899 and 1906. After the First World War
Hammond worked for the Manchester Guardian.
With his wife, Lucy Barbara Bradby (1873-1961),
Hammond wrote three history books that looked at the impact of the
industrial revolution on the working class: The
Village Labourer (1911), The Town
Labourer (1917) and The Skilled
Labourer (1919). Other books
included Lord Shaftesbury (1923),
The Age of the Chartists (1930),
C. P. Scott (1934) and Gladstone
and the Irish Nation (1934). John Lawrence Hammond died in
1949.
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