Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton (3 February 1837 (baptised Andover 22 March 1837) – 31 July 1907) was a novelist and journalist. He was the editor of The Sunday Times from 1874 to 1881. He died in St John’s Wood, Middx aged 70.
Hatton was born and baptised in Andover, Hampshire, but his parents, Francis Augustus and Mary Ann Hatton, moved to Chesterfield when he was still young, where he later became apprenticed as a printer to his father Francis. Hatton married Louisa Johnson and had three children, Helen Howard Hatton, Bessie Lyle Hatton and Frank Hatton. His brother Joshua Hatton was also a journalist. Hatton accompanied Henry Irving on his North American tour to write his biography.
Editor
Bristol Mirror
Gentleman's Magazine
School Board Chronicle
Illustrated Midland News
The Sunday Times
The People (1892)
Novels (incomplete)
Bitter Sweets: a Love Story London 1865.
The Tallants of Barton: A Tale of Fortune and Finance, 1867
By Order of the Czar. A drama in five acts London : Hutchinson & Co., 1904.
Captured by Cannibals. Some incidents in the life of Horace Duran Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1888.
Christopher Henrick: his Life and Adventures London, 1869.
Cigarette Papers for after dinner smoking Anthony Treherne & Co.: London, 1902.
Clytie: a Novel of Modern Life London, Guildford, 1874.
Cruel London London, 1878.
The Dagger and the Cross London : Hutchinson & Co., 1897.
The Gay World London : Hurst & Blackett, 1877.
In Male Attire: a Romance of the Day London : Hutchinson & Co., 1900.
In the Lap of Fortune. A story stranger than fiction. London, Guildford [printed], 1873.
John Needham's Double, 1885 (also a play)
Kites and Pigeons London, 1872.
The Park Lane Mystery: a Story of Love and Magic London, 1887.
The Princess Mazaroff. A romance London : Hutchinson & Co., 1891.
The Queen of Bohemia London, Beccles, 1877.
The Valley of Poppies London: Chapman and Hall, 1871.
Three Recruits, and the girls they left behind them London : Hurst & Blackett, 1880.
The Old House at Sandwich, 1892.
The White King of Manoa London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899.
co-wrote The Fate of Fenella (1892)
Non-fiction
Henry Irving's Impression of America Boston: James R Osgood, 1884.
North Borneo: Explorations and Adventures on the Equator [with his son, Frank Hatton], London: Sampson Low, 1885.
