Hatch

Hatch, Edwin (1835-89), a liberal theologian, was born at Derby, his father being a Nonconformist. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Pembroke College, Oxford. He took orders in the English Church, and after some parochial experience in East London, was for three years (1859-62) professor of classics at Toronto, and for four years rector of the Quebec High School. In 1867 he returned to England, and was Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, from that date till 1885. In 1880 he was Bampton Lecturer, and from 1882 to 1884 Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint. In 1884 he was also appointed Reader in Ecclesiastical History. His Oryanisatian of the Early Christian Churches (Bampton Lectures) was translated by Harnack. Among his other works were The Growth of Church Institutions <1887), and Essays in Biblical Greek (Grinfield Lectures), (1889), and he had begun a Concordance to the Septuayint.