Hannibal Gamon

Hannibal Gamon, sometimes spelled Gammon, was an English clergyman and Puritan divine, baptized in 1582 and believed to have died around 1650 or 1651. He was educated at Oxford, taking his B.A. and M.A., and later became known as a preacher in Cornwall.

He served as rector of St. Mawgan, where he gained a reputation as a serious and committed minister. Sources also connect him with several printed sermons, including funeral and assize sermons, showing that he was an active religious writer as well as a preacher.

Modern readers are most likely to encounter him through The Praise of a Godly Woman, the work preserved by Project Gutenberg. Although not much about his life survives in detail, the record that remains suggests a learned minister whose writing reflected the strong moral and devotional tone of English Puritanism.