Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, 1st baronet (1738-1828), was captain, North American station, 1770-80, Governor of Nova Scotia, 1780-83, Comptroller of the Navy, 1794-1806, and MP for Ipswich, 1796-1806. His son, Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond (1779-1862), held various commands in the Napoleonic Wars; in 1824 he conveyed Lord Stuart de Rothesay to Brazil in the Wellesley, and he was Commander-in-Chief, South American station, 1834-38. Sir Graham Hamond's son Sir Andrew Hamond commanded the Salamander off Tahiti in the 1840's, when the French authorities were reducing native resistance on the islands.
From the guide to the Sir Andrew Hamond and Sir Graham Hamond: Correspondence and Papers, 1778-1871, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
