HAMMOND, William Henry Cressy (1839-1928) — London
Lithographer, publisher & stationer. For business addresses and work produced in partnership with Robert Jewel Cook as ‘Cook & Hammond’ see Robert Jewel Cook.
Hammond was born in Poplar in 1839, the son of George Hammond (1792?-1874), a timber merchant and later estate agent, and his wife Mary Cressy (1802-1871), who had married at Poplar in 1832 and later moved to Gravesend. Originally himself a house agent, Hammond became a partner of Robert Jewel Cook as ‘Cook & Hammond’, who specialised in printing the plans required for Parliamentary Bills relating to railway building. He married Clara Kezia Millichamp (1846-1930), with whom he had eight children, four still living in 1911, at Christ Church, Streatham, 26 Oct 1869. Cook retired in 1902, but the firm survives (as the CHK Group, incorporating the businesses of Cook, Hammond and Charles Frederick Kell — see BME 2011) to the present day. He died at home 5 May 1928. Probate on effects of £1,286 was granted to two sons 24 Jan 1929.
18 Harmer Street, Gravesend (home) — 1861-1868
16 Liston Road, Clapham (home) — 1871
142 Tulse Hill (home) — 1881
Parkhurst, Rusham Road, Balham (home) — 1891
Parkhurst, Sudbrooke Road, Balham (home) — 1900-1901
15 Rusham Road, Balham (home) — 1911
The Croft, 71 Westbury Road, New Malden (home) — 1914-1928
BNA. Census 1841-1921. Hyde. LG. LMA.