Henry Hatcher

{{Short description|English antiquarian (1777 – 1846)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Henry Hatcher '''Henry Hatcher''' (14 May 1777 – 14 December 1846) was an English antiquarian, born in Kemble, Gloucestershire. He is known for his scholarly contributions to books on the History of Wiltshire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/henry-hatcher-17771846-65001|title=Henry Hatcher (1777–1846) - Art UK|website=artuk|access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref> ''The Hatcher Review'' of the Alderbury & Whaddon Local History Research Group is named in his memory.<ref>[http://www.alderburyhistory.org.uk/Hatcher_Index.htm Index to The Hatcher Review from 1976 to 2000 Volumes 1-5 (Issues 1-50).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616152932/http://www.alderburyhistory.org.uk/Hatcher_Index.htm |date=16 June 2016 }} Alderbury & Whaddon Local History Research Group. Retrieved 5 October 2017.</ref>

== Life == In 1790 Henry and his family moved to Colchester. In school he excelled in classics and mathematics and at age fourteen he became a junior assistant at his school, over the next three years he filled similar situations in other establishments.<ref name="courtney1900">{{Cite wikisource | title = Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hatcher, Henry - Wikisource, the free online library | last = Courtney | first = William Prideaux | year = 1885}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> In 1795 he became an amanuensis to the historian William Coxe whom he assisted in the compilation of his historical works, he also assisted Sir Richard Hoare in many of his works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-92760268/|title=Hatcher, Henry 1777-1846 [WorldCat Identities]|website=worldcat|access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref>

In May 1817 he married Anne, daughter of Richard Amor, in Durrington, Wiltshire. Anne later died on the 28 February 1846 and later that year Hatcher fell ill, seemingly recovered but then suddenly died on 14 December 1846 at age 69. A monument to his memory was placed by public subscription in Salisbury Cathedral.<ref name="courtney1900" />

Among the manuscripts which he left behind were an Anglo-Saxon glossary and grammar, a treatise on the art of fortification, and a dissertation on military and a physical geography. Hatcher's assistance, especially in the labour of translating Spanish and Portuguese documents, was acknowledged by Coxe in his ‘History of the Bourbon Kings of Spain’; a similar testimony to his aid was given in the ‘Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough’, and when Coxe's posthumous volume on the Pelham administration appeared, the preface expressed his indebtedness to his ‘faithful and able secretary Mr. Hatcher.’<ref name="courtney1900" />

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==External links== *{{commons category-inline|Henry Hatcher}} *{{Wikisource inline|Hatcher, Henry (DNB00)|Henry Hatcher}}

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