ideas and usages upon the Christian church (the “Hibbert Lectures,” edited by Andrew Martin Fairbairn, 1897) In 1873, Hatch edited The student's handbook to the University and colleges of Oxford, which appeared in several revised editions during and after his time at the University. He wrote a small number of hymns, collected in the posthumous Towards Fields of Light . One that is noted is Breathe on me, Breath of God. It appeared in the Congregational Psalmist Hymnal (1886) edited by Henry Allon. I dared not hope that thou wouldst deign was included in Garrett Horder's Hymns: Supplemental to Existing Collections" (1894). Family Hatch and his wife Evelyn had four children: Arthur Herbert Hatch (b. 1864), Beatrice Hatch (b. 1866), Ethel Hatch (b. 1869), and Evelyn Hatch (b. 1871). Notes Further reading Memorials of Edwin Hatch: sometime reader in ecclesiastical history in the University of Oxford, and rector of Purleigh, edited by his brother (Samuel C. Hatch). London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1890. Aspects of Edwin Hatch, by Peter Colin Carlsson. Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Southampton, Dept. of Theology, 1974. This work in turn cites an article by Harnack in the Theologische Litteratur Zeitung'' (1890) 1835 births 1889 deaths Academics of the University of Oxford Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Cambridge Converts to Anglicanism English theologians