Vice Admiral Lacon Hammett was a Royal Navy Officer who became Admiral Superintendent of Malta Drydock.

He died suddenly on the 15th of February 1905 while on holiday with his wife in Florence. His corpse was returned to Malta for burial on board the HMS Surprise and was brought to the shores of Birgu. Several Maltese people followed the funerary corteo from Birgu to Kalkara where he was buried.