Edwin Hatch
Born: September 4, 1835, Derby, England.
Died: November 10, 1889, St. Clement, Headington, Oxfordshire, England.
Hatch attended Cambridge and Pembroke College, Oxford (BA in honors, 1857). He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1859, then went to Toronto, Canada, where he became a professor of classics at Trinity College. He later became rector of a high school in Québec. He returned to England in 1867, serving as Vice-Principal of St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford. In 1883, he became rector at Purleigh. A well known scholar, he wrote a concordance to the Septuagint, essays on Biblical Greek, gave Bampton Lectures in 1880, and Hibbert Lectures in 1888. His works include:
Hymns