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Mr. Hammond, late Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1873. 'The retirement of this gentleman from the Foreign Office was lately noticed, with general expressions of regard for his public character and services during half a century of Government work. The Right Hon. Edmund Hammond was born in 1802, and was born to his profession, being a son of Mr. George Hammond, who was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the reign of George III. He was educated at Harrow and Eton, and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated in honours in 1823, and gained a fellowship. He became a clerk in the Privy Council Office in October, 1823, but in April, 1824, was removed to the Foreign Office. In 1831 he was attached to the staff of Sir Stratford Canning (now Lord Stratford de Redcliffe) in the special mission to Turkey, and in 1832 to a special mission at the Court of Spain. He was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in April, 1854, and has remained in that office until now. In February, 1855, he accompanied Lord John Russell, now Earl Russell, who was then Secretary of State, on his special mission to take part in the Vienna Conferences for terms of peace with Russia. Mr. Hammond was admitted to the Privy Council in June, 1846. He married, in 1846, a daughter of Lord Robert Kerr'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.