Frank Hatton (explorer)

Frank Hatton (31 August 1861 – 1 March 1883) was an English geologist and explorer, who died young from an accidental shooting in the Bornean jungle.

He was the second child of the journalist Joseph Hatton, who wrote a biographical preface to the book on North Borneo published posthumously based on field notes.

[1] Frank was born at Horfield near Bristol and was educated at Marcy, near Lille in France and later King's College School.

With a keen interest in the study of geology, he joined the British North Borneo Company as a mineral explorer and set off on his first expedition, leaving London in August 1881.

[2] Frank's publications included a note on The Adventures of a Drop of Thames Water to the Whitehall Review and two papers- On the Action of Bacteria on Various Gases,[6] and On the Influence of Intermittent Filtration through Sand and Spongy Iron on Animal and Vegetable Matters dissolved in Water, and the Reduction of Nitrates by savage and other agents.