Christopher Hatton

Sir Christopher Hatton (12 December 1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I. He was one of the judges who found Mary, Queen of Scots guilty of treason.

Quotes

• England hath been accounted hitherto the most renowned kingdom for valour and manhood in all Christendom; and shall we now lose our old reputation? If we should, it had been better for England we had never been born.
  • Speech at the opening of Parliament (4 February 1589), in J. E. Neale, Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments, 1584–1601 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1957) p. 201

About Hatton

• So you, great lord, that with your counsel sway
  The burden of this kingdom mightily,
  With like delights sometimes may eke delay
  The rugged brow of careful policy.
  • Edmund Spenser, dedicatory sonnet, The Faerie Queene (1590)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Christopher Hatton on Wikipedia