Nancy R. Hammond

NANCY HAMMOND graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a BA in French and from Western Reserve University in Cleveland with an MS in Library Science. She worked as a cataloguer at the Harvard University School of Higher Education where she did the course work for an MA in Education. Then while working as Head of Circulation at Baker Library Harvard Business School she exchanged jobs with a British librarian and then moved to England in 1972. There she worked as Tutor librarian at Hatfield Polytechnic, Library Education Officer at the Polytechnic of North London, and Lecturer at Brighton Polytechnic Library School. While living in Northumberland after retirement she was involved with the Bailiffgate Museum in Alnwick researching houses and the people who lived in them in that town.

She bought a house jointly with her sister in Portsmouth, N.H. in 2003, moved there permanently in 2018, and became involved with a committee researching local properties for Portsmouth’s 400th anniversary in 2023. She is a volunteer at the Portsmouth Athenaeum where she is now a Proprietor. Her research into the life of Jonathan Mitchell Sewall began with the purchase of the house in 2003 and she has written his biography during the pandemic as well as creating a Google Site of historic properties in the South End of Portsmouth.