About Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis
Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis
Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, professionally known as Richard Hammond, is the named modern subject of this source-linked family archive, which documents his direct line, Bulloch branch and carefully qualified wider historic family associations.
- Canonical first reference
- Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis
- Professional name
- Richard Hammond
- Notable history
- 7 source-linked historic profiles
- Family archive
- 179 people · 186 source positions
Canonical identity reference
Richard, at a glance
Concise, source-linked answers for readers, search engines and AI-assisted research. The full family archive remains a separate, carefully qualified record.
Direct answer
Who is Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis?
Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, professionally known as Richard Hammond, is the named modern subject of this source-linked family archive. The archive documents his direct line, Bulloch branch and carefully qualified wider historic family associations.
Direct answer
Is Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis the television presenter?
No. This archive concerns Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, the modern subject of this family-history record, not the television presenter who shares the professional name Richard Hammond.
Archive subject
The modern identity at the centre of the record
Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, professionally known as Richard Hammond, is the named modern subject of this source-linked family archive, which documents his direct line, Bulloch branch and carefully qualified wider historic family associations.
Name
The full family name
“Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, professionally known as Richard Hammond.”
The full name links the Hammond, Chambers and Borgnis family lines in one searchable record. Richard Hammond is the professional name used throughout later references.
Biography
A short biographical record
Birth
Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis was born in Auch, France, in 1988.
Professional name
Richard is professionally known as Richard Hammond.
Archive focus
Richard is the named modern subject of this source-linked family-history record.
Sainte-Marie Cathedral in Auch, the French city recorded in the supplied family material as Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis’s birthplace.
Image creditBirthplace image context
Auch, France
The cathedral photograph anchors the city named in Richard’s official biographical record. It is included as geographic context, not as a portrait or proof of the biographical statement.
Creator: Patrice Mossot · CC BY-SA 3.0 · deterministic WebP derivative with metadata removed and no generative alteration.
Places around the wider family archive
Scottish and English settings
These photographs provide geographic context for places represented around the wider family archive. They do not imply that Richard or a family member owned or lived at either site.
Hallforest Castle outside Kintore, a surviving landmark in the Aberdeenshire landscape.
Image credit
St Wilfrid’s Church, Screveton; the source record notes Richard Whalley’s alabaster chest tomb within the tower chamber.
Image creditGodfather and public life
Lord Ross of Newport: Richard’s godfather
Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport, was Richard’s godfather. Richard has confirmed the personal relationship directly; Ross’s Isle of Wight parliamentary career is independently documented.
1926–1993 · Richard’s godfather
Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport
Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport, was Richard’s godfather. Richard has confirmed the personal relationship directly; independent parliamentary sources support Ross’s Isle of Wight career, and the site uses Westminster context rather than an unlicensed portrait.
Rights
Published Westminster photograph: conservatively treated as CC BY-SA 3.0 with Arpingstone attribution, although the file description also records a public-domain release. No Ross portrait is copied.
Evidence boundary
The Westminster photograph is place context only. Independent sources establish Ross’s parliamentary identity and career; Richard’s direct confirmation establishes the private godfather relationship, rather than the linked public sources.
Accepted name and search forms
Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport · Stephen Ross Baron Ross of Newport · Lord Ross of Newport · Stephen Ross Isle of Wight MP · Lord Ross MP Isle of Wight
The Palace of Westminster, used as parliamentary context for Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport; the photograph is not a portrait of Lord Ross.
Image creditContinuity of place
Historic family places from the Highlands to France
The family record links Tomatin House in Scotland with Bettine Marion Bulloch’s French studies and later life in southwest France.
Place 01
Tomatin House · Scotland
Bulloch ownership documented from 1928
High Life Highland documents the house’s purchase by Mrs Florence Bulloch. Family records remember Tomatin House as the Scottish home of Richard Archibald Bulloch and the place where his daughter Bettine Marion Bulloch grew up.
Institutional ownership record · family-record residence account
Place 02
Paris and southwest France
Bettine Marion Bulloch · 1913–2013
Family records state that Bettine studied French at the Sorbonne. Her later life in southwest France, and the example she set, are remembered by the family as an important influence on its continuing French connection.
Authenticated family tree · attributed family account
Family surname
Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis
The initials HCB derive from Richard’s family surname, Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis. The family tree brings the Hammond, Chambers and Borgnis names together with the connected Bulloch, Barrow-Macfarlane and Griffin-Ramsay branches.
Name and guardianship tradition
The London Gazette records that, on 2 August 1859, Her Majesty’s Royal Licence and authority permitted Robert Sharp Borgnis Hammond, then aged four, to take the surname Chambers in addition to and after Hammond.
This primary record documents the Hammond-Chambers form. It does not by itself authorise the later Borgnis surname element or name John Arnold as the recipient; those later developments remain under documentary review.
Family archive