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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{One source|date=December 2025}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}<br /> {{EngvarB|date=August 2024}}<br /> {{Short description|British colonial administrator}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Sir Egbert Laurie Lucas Hammond&#039;&#039;&#039;, [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]], [[CBE]] (12 January 1873 – 28 January 1939) was a British colonial administrator in India. A leading expert in Indian electoral reform, he was [[Governor of Assam]] from 1927 to 1932.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite news|date=30 January 1939|title=Sir Laurie Hammond|page=14|work=[[The Times]]}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The son of the Rev. Joseph Hammond, Canon of Truro Cathedral, Laurie Hammond was educated at Newton Abbot College, South Devon and [[Keble College, Oxford]]. He passed into the [[Indian Civil Service]] by examination in 1895 and went out to Bengal the following year.{{fact|date=August 2024}}<br /> <br /> He was a member of the [[Peel Commission]].{{fact|date=August 2024}}<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Laurie}}<br /> [[Category:1873 births]]<br /> [[Category:1939 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Governors of Assam]]<br /> [[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]<br /> [[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]<br /> [[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]<br /> [[Category:Alumni of Keble College, Oxford]]</div>

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