William Sanday

“ While the movement which began with the ‘Tracts for the Times’ was at full flood, he laboured strenuously, and for the most part alone, to place theology in Oxford on a really systematic and scientific basis. ”

“ In this capacity he lectured on ‘Early Liturgies,’ the ‘Growth of Canon Law,’ and the ‘Carlovingian Reformation.’ In 1888 his philosophical interests found expression in a course of Hibbert lectures, entitled ‘Greek Influence on Christianity,’ which were published in 1890 under the editorship of Dr. Fairbairn. But the strain of this multifarious work was too great, and Hatch died on 10 Nov. 1889.
Hatch belonged to no school, and bore the stamp of no one master. His mind was originative. He preferred to work things out for himself by a strictly inductive method. ”