Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hatsell, Henry
HATSELL, Sir HENRY (1641–1714), judge, was son of Henry Hatsell of Saltram, in the parish of Plympton St. Mary, Devonshire, an active roundhead, who was M.P. for Devonshire in the parliaments of 1654 and 1656, and for Plympton in that of 1658. Henry Hatsell the younger was born in March 1641, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on 4 Feb. 1658–9. He entered the Middle Temple in the following year, was called to the bar in 1667, and to the degree of serjeant-at-law in May 1689, and in November 1697 was created a baron of the exchequer, and knighted. He tried Spencer Cowper [q. v.], afterwards justice of the common pleas, on the charge of murdering Sarah Stout in 1699. His patent was renewed on the accession of Anne, but shortly afterwards (9 June 1702) he was removed. He died in April 1714. Hatsell married Judith, daughter of Josiah Bateman, merchant, of London, and relict of Sir Richard Shirley, bart., of Preston, Sussex. His son, Henry (d. 1762), was a bencher of the Middle Temple.
[Gent. Mag. 1849, ii. 2; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. 266 a, 7th Rep. 117 a, 691 b; Parl. Hist. iii. 1429, 1479, 1532; Wynne's Serjeant-at-Law; Luttrell's Rel. of State Affairs, iv. 309, v. 181; Lord Raymond's Rep. p. 250; Berry's County Genealogies, Sussex, p. 172; Burke's Extinct Baronetage, tit. ‘Shirley;’ Cat. of Oxf. Graduates; Foss's Lives of the Judges.]