Stanley Hinge Hamp was born in the London, England in 1878 and attended the City of London School, He was articled to Thomas Edward Collcutt (1840-1924) in London from 1893 to 1896 and remained with him as his assistant until 1904, during which time he attended the Architectural Association classes and King's College, University of London. Hamp qualified as an architect in 1899 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) the following year.
Hamp established his own independent practise in London in 1904 and from 1906 was in partnership with Collcutt as Collcutt & Hamp. Following Collcutt's death in 1924, Hamp continued to run the practice with the title unchanged even after John Grancis Watkins joined as a partner. The partnership with Watkins was dissolved in 1946, however Hamp again continued to run the business for some years with the name unchanged.
A photograph of a group of cottages at Mill Hill, London, designed by Hamp are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1910 (p.38); photographs of 'Davenies' at Beaconsfield in Hampshire designed by Hamp are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1911 (pp.33, 34, 35); photographs of 'Marsham's Farm', Gerrard's Cross in Buckinghamshire, and a house at Tadworth in Surrey designed by Hamp are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1912 (pp.22, 23); a photographs of the exterior and the fireplace in the lounge of Swinley Forest Golf Club House at Ascot, Berkshire, designed by Hamp are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1913 (p.32); two photographs and a plan of a golf club house at Beaconsfield, designed by Hamp are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1915 (pp.74-75); and two photographs of "White Barn", Beaconsfield, and two photographs of "Davenies", Beaconsfield, designed by Hamp are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Applied Art' 1921 (pp.61, 62, 63).
Between 1908 and 1937 Hamp exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1922 and was onetime President of the Architectural Association (AA). His address was 36 Bloomsbury Street, London (1899); 6 Edwardes Square, Kensington, London (1914, 1919); and 126 Wigmore Street, London (1926). He died Stroud, Gloucestershire on 17 April 1968.
Architectural projects by Hamp included the rebuilding of the offices of the Peninsular & Orient Steamship Co. in Leadenhall Street, London; offices for Messrs Liebig Ltd. in Queen Street, London; alterations and additions to the Savoy Hotel in Strand, London (1910); alterations and additions to Claridge's Hotel in Brook Street, London; premises for Hamley Bros. Ltd, in Regent Street, London; premises for Messrs Fuller Ltd., in Regent Street, London; a science building for Mill Hill School in London; the Gate of Honour at Mill Hill School, London; the London School of Tropical Medicine at Endsleigh Gardens, London; King George's Sanatorium for sailors at Bramshot, Hampshire; alterations and additions to Roffey Park in Horsham, Sussex; Davenies Farm at Beaconfield, Buckinghamshire; and Leith Hall and Public Library at Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland (1926).
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘Obituary’. Building vol. 214, 26 April 1968 p. 87