Early Life
Philip Hammond was born in Epping, Essex, the son of a civil engineer. He first attended Brookfield Junior school, Shenfield School (now Shenfield High School) in Brentwood, Essex, and University College, Oxford, where he gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
Hammond joined the medical equipment manufacturers Speywood Laboratories Ltd in 1977, becoming a director of Speywood Medical Limited in 1981. In 1982, an automatic electrocardiograph electrode manufacturing plant figured among his notable achievements. He left in 1983 and, from 1984, he was a director in Castlemead Ltd. From 1993 to 1995, he was a partner in CMA Consultants and, from 1994, a director in Castlemead Homes. He had many business interests including house building and property, manufacturing, healthcare and oil and gas. He undertook various consulting assignments in Latin America for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and was a consultant to the government of Malawi from 1995 until his election to Parliament.
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