Paul Hammett
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Paul 'Doc' Hammett was a UK fan active in in the 1950s. He was a member of the Birmingham Science Fiction Circle. He and his wife, Joan, were described by Bob Madle as 'very clever, and are good for a few laughs per minute'[1].
Hammett attended the Coroncon in London in 1953 and Ken Slater described him as from Malta[2] although he was living in Birmingham in 1954 when he was likely unmarried as Ethel Lindsay visited him and makes no mention of Joan. He had a London address in Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955, he and Joan were in Birmingham in 1956, and in Bilston, Staffordshire from 1957. However, when Bob Madle met them at Loncon, the 1957 Worldcon, he described them as 'from the island of Malta' again. In Aporrheta #12 (July-August 1959) the Hammetts are implied to be living in Dorset but Joan Hammett is also described as 'Chairwoman of the Midland Region Group' of CND suggesting that Dorset wasn't their permanent base.
The Hammetts were regular attendees at UK conventions until at least Brumcon in 1959 but probably no later. They only attended the latter briefly, leaving to join the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston March (Wikipedia).
He was by profession a medical doctor.
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