Editing Charles Hatchett (section)

==Life==
Charles Hatchett was born in [[Long Acre]], London to John Hatchett (1729–1806), and Elizabeth Hatchett.<ref name="Wisniak"/> John Hatchett was "(one of) the coachbuilders of London of the greatest celebrity".<ref name="Griffith"/> He later became a magistrate in Hammersmith. Charles Hatchett attended a private school, Fountayne's, in Marylebone Park, and was a self-taught mineralogist and analytical chemist.<ref name="Wisniak"/>

On 24 March 1786, Charles Hatchett married Elizabeth Martha Collick (1756–1837)<ref name="Griffith"/><ref name="Wisniak"/><ref name="Marriage">{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnlPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA224|work=The New Lady's Magazine |issue=April|page=224 |date=1787}}</ref> at [[St Martin-in-the-Fields]]. Their children included:
#John Charles Hatchett (bapt 27 January 1788 St Martin-in-the-Fields)<ref name="Wisniak"/>
#His daughter, Anna Frederica Hatchett, married the chemist [[William Thomas Brande]].<ref name="Wisniak"/><ref name="Edinburgh">{{cite web |title=HATCHETT, CHARLES. 02/01/1765-10/03/1847. Ref: 714. Male |url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |website=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 |publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh |access-date=15 December 2019 |date=2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919152306/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |archive-date=19 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Following their marriage, Hatchett and his wife traveled extensively in [[Poland]] and [[Russia]] for 2 years before settling in [[Hammersmith]].  In 1790, Hatchett again had the opportunity to travel extensively, when his father sent him to deliver a coach to [[Catherine the Great]] in [[St. Petersburg]]. With an introduction from [[Sir Joseph Banks]], he visited chemist [[Martin Klaproth]], geologist and botanist [[Peter Pallas]], Neapolitan mineralogist [[Andrea Savaresi]], and other scientists.<ref name="Griffith"/>

In 1796 Hatchett took another long tour, this time through England and Scotland, where he visited geological sites, mines, and factories.<ref name="Griffith"/> His diary of this trip was edited by [[Arthur Raistrick]] and published in 1967 as  ''The Hatchett diary: a tour through the counties of England and Scotland in 1796 visiting their mines and manufactories''.<ref name="Raistrick">{{cite book |editor-last1=Raistrick |editor-first1=Arthur |title=The Hatchett diary: a tour through the counties of England and Scotland in 1796 visiting their mines and manufactories |date=1967 |publisher=Barton |location=Truro}}</ref>