Henry Hatcher (1777 – 1846)

A plaque to the historian was erected on 54 Endless Street. He was also appointed postmaster in 1817, resigning in 1822 to open a private school. He published “An historical and descriptive account of Old and New Sarum or Salisbury” in 1834. He compiled, with Robert Benson, the Salisbury part of the monumental “History of modern Wiltshire”, which was published in 1843. His name was adopted for the Hatcher Society, which did research on local history in and around Salisbury, in the final quarter of the C20th. From 1976 to 2001 it published the biannual Hatcher Review, a local history journal whose work has been carried on, since 2001, by the Sarum Chronicle. He is buried in St Edmund’s Churchyard, where his monument, near the NW corner, has a slate plaque added to one end. This addition, to compensate for increasingly illegible lettering on the original stone, was a joint enterprise in 1990 by the Hatcher Society and the Civic Society.