HATCH, EDWIN (1835-1889), English theologian, was born at Derby on Sept. 14, 1835, and had a distinguished academic career in Canada and Great Britain. His treatises on The Organi zation of the Early Christian Churches (1881, his Bampton lec tures), and on The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages on the Christian Church (the Hibbert lectures for 1888) provoked criti cism on account of the challenge they threw down to the high church party, but the research and fairness displayed were admitted on all hands. He died on Nov. To, 1889.
See W. Sanday in The Expositor (February, 1890).