Eric Hammond
Joseph Oliver Eric Hammond (1852 - 1936) was an early British Bahá’í who served on the first National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles.
Biography[edit]
Hammond was born in Gosport, Hampshire, in England in 1852. He married Martha Ellen in Farnham in 1891 and they settled in Wimbledon by 1911.[1] Hammond and his wife were both interested in religions outside of Christianity and investigated Hinduism and Theosophy, meeting with Swami Vivekananda in 1896. Hammond wrote an essay on Ramakrishna which was published in The Theosophical Review in 1902.[1]
As of the early 1920's Hammond had become a Bahá’í and he was elected to the first National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles when it was established in 1923. He requested not to be re-elected to the Assembly in 1924.[2] He passed away in Wimbledon in 1936.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lil Osborn, Men and the Baha'i Faith: An investigation into the role of indigenous men in the early Baha'i community in the British Isles, Baha'i Library Online, 2016, p 5
- ↑ Lil Osborn, Men and the Baha'i Faith: An investigation into the role of indigenous men in the early Baha'i community in the British Isles, Baha'i Library Online, 2016, p 2
- ↑ Joseph Oliver Eric Hammond at FindaGrave.com
