Beatrice Hatch

Beatrice Hatch
A Lewis Carroll portrait of Beatrice Hatch
Born	Beatrice Sheward Hatch 1866 (1866)
Died	1947 (aged 80–81)
Alma mater	Oxford High School, Oxford
Known for	Association with Lewis Carroll
Parent(s)	Evelyn and Edwin Hatch
Relatives	Evelyn Hatch Ethel Hatch

Beatrice Sheward Hatch (1866 - 1947) was a muse of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. She was one of a select few children that Dodgson photographed nude, therefore making Hatch the subject of much contemporary study and speculation. Photographs of Hatch still inspire artistic work in contemporary times.

Beatrice Sheward Hatch was born in 1866 to Edwin and Evelyn Hatch. Edwin Hatch was a theologian; author; a vice-principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford; and later a university reader in Ecclesiastical history. Beatrice had two younger sisters, being Ethel and Evelyn, the latter presumably being named after her mother. She also had a brother named Arthur Herbert Hatch (b. 1864), who was House Prefect at his school, Malvern College. The Hatch family moved in "stimulating circles", including friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Algernon Charles Swinburne and William Morris.

The family lived in a Gothic-style house built in 1867 on Banbury Road in Norham Gardens, North Oxford, England. The house was described as having "arched windows, a tower, and a turret complete with a statue niche towards the top." Neighborhood friends included Julia and Ethel Huxley, daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the aunts of Aldous Huxley. Other acquaintances in the neighborhood who visited the Hatch family included Bonamy Price, Mark Pattison, and Benjamin Jowett.