Edwin Hatch

Edwin Hatch (1835-1889), full name Edwin Warren Hatch, was an English theologian, born at Derby. He was graduated at Oxford, and was for some years professor of Classics in Trinity College, Toronto. In 1867, he was appointed Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. He became Rector of Purleigh, Essex, in 1883. He also became reader in Ecclesiastical History at Oxford. He held the Grinfield, Bampton, and Hibbert lectureships at different times, and established a reputation, both abroad and at home, for wide and accurate scholarship. Harnack translated his learned lectures on "The Organisation of the Early Christian Churches" and "The Growth of Church Institutions" displayed his rare gift of combining profound scholarship with popular presentation.

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