Thomas Hatcher

Thomas Hatcher (died 1583) was an English antiquarian.

Life He was born at Cambridge, son of John Hatcher, MD, Regius Professor of Physic. He was educated at Eton College, and was elected in 1555 to King's College, Cambridge. He proceeded Bachelor of Arts in 1559–60, and his M.A. in 1563.

Hatcher was a Fellow of King's, from 1558 to 1566. In 1565, being dissatisfied with the government of Provost Philip Baker, Hatcher along with some other members of the college, wrote a letter of complaint against him to William Cecil. He studied law in Gray's Inn, where he was admitted in 1565, and then medicine. Latin verses On the restitution of Bucer and Fagius, 1560 In commendation of Bishop Alley's Poor Man's Library, 1571 In commendation of Carr and Wilson's Demosthenes On the death of Nicholas Carr On Frere's translation of Hippocrates In Paracelsitas, MS. C.C.C. Oxon. 258, f. 67 On the death of Dr. Whittington gored by a bull; in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. Editor Walter Haddon's Lucubrationes et Poemata, 1567, dedicated to William Cecil Nicholas Carr's orations De scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate, 1576.