of Purleigh in Essex, and in 1884 he was made university reader in ecclesiastical history. In this capacity he lectured on ‘Early Liturgies,’ the ‘Growth of Canon Law,’ and the ‘Carlovingian Reformation.’ In 1888 his philosophical interests found expression in a course of Hibbert lectures, entitled ‘Greek Influence on Christianity,’ which were published in 1890 under the editorship of Dr. Fairbairn. But the strain of this multifarious work was too great, and Hatch died on 10 Nov. 1889.
Hatch belonged to no school, and bore the stamp of no one master. His mind was originative. He preferred to work things out for himself by a strictly inductive method. While the movement which began with the ‘Tracts for the Times’ was at full flood, he laboured strenuously, and for the most part alone, to place theology in Oxford on a really systematic and scientific basis. But it was not given to him to complete his work. Of his inner life more is revealed in a little collection of sacred poems (‘Towards Fields of Light’), and a memorial volume of sermons published after his death.
[Memorials of Hatch, edited by his brother (S. C. Hatch), 1890; Expositor for February 1890; an article by Dr. Harnack in Theol. Literaturzeitung, 14 June 1890, col. 297 ff. A memoir by his widow is in preparation.]
HATCHARD, JOHN (1769–1849), publisher, was born in 1769, and served his apprenticeship with Mr. Ginger of College Street, Westminster. He afterwards became an assistant to Mr. Payne of the Mews Gate, and commenced business on his own account at 173 Piccadilly, London. The publication of a pamphlet, ‘Reform or Ruin,’ in 1797 was the commencement of a long and prosperous publishing career. Hatchard was appointed bookseller to Queen Charlotte and other members of the royal family; he issued the publications of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, and published the ‘Christian Observer’ from the first number in 1802 to 1845, when he retired from business. He died at Clapham Common, 21 June 1849, in his eighty-first year. His eldest son, the Rev. John Hatchard, was vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, and his second son, Thomas, for some time his partner, succeeded as head of the house of Hatchard & Son, booksellers and publishers, 187 Piccadilly.
[Gent. Mag. August 1849, pp. 210–11; Nichols's Lit. Illustr. viii. 520–4.]
HATCHARD, THOMAS GOODWIN (1817–1870), bishop of Mauritius, son of Thomas Hatchard, the publisher (d. 13 Nov. 1858), and grandson of John Hatchard [q. v.], was born at 11 Sloane Street, Chelsea, on 18 Sept. 1817, and educated at King's College, London. He matriculated from Brasenose College, Oxford, as Thomas Goodwyn Hatchard on 11 April 1837, graduated B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845, and D.D. 4 Feb. 1869. He was curate of Windlesham, Surrey, from 1842 to 1844, domestic chaplain to the Marquis of Conyngham from 1845 to 1869; rector of Havant, Hampshire, from 1846 to 1856, and of St. Nicholas, Guildford, Surrey, from 1856 to 1869. He was consecrated bishop of Mauritius in Westminster Abbey on 24 Feb. 1869. He belonged to the moderate evangelical school. As a parochial clergyman he was indefatigable in his duties. He died of fever in the island of Mauritius 28 Feb. 1870. He married, 19 Feb. 1846, Fanny Vincent Steele, second daughter of the Right Rev. Michael Solomon Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem. She died at Cannes, 7 Dec. 1880.
Hatchard wrote: 1. ‘The German Tree. A Moral for the Young,’ 1851. 2. ‘The Floweret Gathered. A brief Memoir of Adelaide Charlotte Hatchard, his daughter,’ 1858. 3. ‘Sermons,’ 1847–62 (four pamphlets). His wife published: 1. ‘Eight Years' Experience of Mothers' Meetings,’ 1871. 2. ‘Prayers for Little Children,’ 1872. 3. ‘Mothers' Meetings, and how to organize them,’ 1875. 4. ‘Mothers of Scripture,’ 1875. 5. ‘Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer,’ 1878. 6. ‘Prayers for Mothers' Meetings,’ 1878.
[Illustrated London News, 16 April 1870, p. 411; Times, 31 March 1870, p. 9; Guardian, 30 March 1870, p. 367, and 6 April, p. 399; information from the bishop's son, Alexander, of Messrs. Hatchard the publishers.]
HATCHER, HENRY (1777–1846), antiquary, son of a small farmer of Kemble, near Cirencester, was born there on 14 May 1777. His parents moved to Salisbury about 1790, when he was placed with a schoolmaster named West, and made considerable progress in classics and mathematics. At the age of fourteen he became junior assistant in the school, and during the next three years filled similar situations in other establishments. About the beginning of 1795 he was engaged as amanuensis to the Rev. William Coxe [q. v.], the historian, whom he assisted in the compilation of his historical works. For some time after 1800 Coxe turned aside to investigate the Roman roads and other antiquities of Wiltshire, and this task gave his companion his taste for antiquarian research. They gave great assistance to Sir Richard Colt-Hoare [q. v.] in his edition of ‘Giraldus Cambrensis’ (1806), a publication which induced Hatcher to undertake a translation of the treatise passing under
