Born at Ahmadnagar in the Bombay Presidency on 6 December 1854, the son of Captain William Sparkes Hatch, of the Bombay Artillery. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and at King's College, London which he entered in October 1873. He entered the Indian Medical Service as surgeon on 31 March 1877, was promoted surgeon major on 31 March 1889 and surgeon lieutenant-colonel on 31 March 1897. He was placed on the selected list for promotion on 22 April 1900, and retired from the service on 15 November 1903. He served in the second Afghan war in 1880, receiving the medal. Most of his service was passed in civil employ in the Bombay Presidency, where he was for long civil surgeon at Poona. He died on 27 November 1935 at 27 Tivoli Road, Cheltenham. Publication:- Mycetoma, in Watson's *Encyclopaedia medica* 1901, 8.