He is best known as the author of the book Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church, which was based on his 1888 Hibbert Lectures and which were edited and published following his death.

He joined the Church of England, baptised in 1852, having been raised a nonconformist, under the influence of John Cale Miller, rector of St Martin in the Bull Ring.

[1] Hatch matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1853, where he was a dominant figure in the Birmingham Set.

[1] He moved to Toronto, Canada West, where he was professor of classics at Trinity College until 1862.

[7] I dared not hope that thou wouldst deign was included in Garrett Horder's Hymns: Supplemental to Existing Collections" (1894).