HEYWOOD, Thomas (brother of Sir B. Heywood). b. Manchester 3 Sep. 1797; ed. at Manchester gram. sch. 1811; partner in Heywood, Bros. & Co. bankers, St. Ann’s sq. Manchester, retired 1828; collected a remarkable library of local books at Swinton, they were sold Manchester 22–3 April 1835; boroughreeve of Salford 1826; sheriff of Herefordshire 1840; F.S.A.; member of council of Chetham soc. for which he edited The Norris Papers 1846 and 5 other works; author of The earls of Derby and the verse writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Manchester 1826; The most pleasant song of Lady Bessy 1829. d. Hope End near Ledbury 20 Nov. 1866; his general library sold Manchester, Nov. 1868. Manchester sch. reg. iii, 74–6 (1874).
HEYWORTH, Lawrence (4 son of Peter Heyworth, woollen manufacturer, d. 1799). b. Greensnook, Bacup 1786; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch. near Halifax 1799–1802; woollen manufacturer with his brothers at Bacup 1802; established business connections with Portuguese and Spanish 1805 and with South America 1808; in S. America 1809–16; established agencies in Liverpool and Hamburg; firm became Heyworth, Brothers & Co., retired 1836; purchased Yew Tree estate near Liverpool 1819; chairman Liverpool Free trade association; M.P. Derby 1848–57; author of On the corn laws and other legislative restrictions, 7 ed. 1843; On economic fiscal legislation 1845; The expansion of the suffrage and accession of blessings God has in store for all classes through the wise exercise of the franchise 1861. d. Yew Tree, West Derby, Liverpool 19 April 1872. I.L.N. 22 June 1850 pp. 443–4, portrait; Newbigging’s Forest of Rossendale (1868) 181–88.
HIBBERD, James Shirley (son of a master mariner). b. St. Dunstan, Stepney, London 1825; apprentice to a bookseller at Stepney; editor of Floral World 1858, which he managed to 1875; editor Gardener’s Magazine 1861 to death; a practical writer on agriculture, experimented on fruit trees and vegetables, especially on potatoes; temperance advocate and a vegetarian; a popular lecturer, lectured at Wylde’s Great Globe; F.R.H.S.; author of Brambles and Bayleaves. Essays 1855, 3 ed. 1873; Profitable gardening 1863; Familiar garden flowers 5 vols. 1879–87; Water-cresses without sewage 1878 and 25 other books. d. 1 Priory road, The Green, Kew 16 Nov. 1890. Gardener’s Mag. 22 Nov. 1890, portrait; I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 678, portrait.
HIBBERD, Samuel. b. 1839; jockey; won the Cambridgeshire on Malacca 1856, Cesarewitch on Lecturer 1866, the Chester Cup on One Act in 1856 and on Dalby in 1865 and 1866. d. Newmarket 21 Feb. 1888. Times 29 Feb. 1888 p. 9.
HIBBERT, John (son of John Hibbert of Braywick lodge, Maidenhead, d. 1855). b. 29 Jany. 1811; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; chairman of Cookham board of guardians; built a ch. for the poor of the Maidenhead and Cookham union; founded and endowed a ward in Royal Windsor infirmary. d. Braywick lodge, Maidenhead 28 March 1888.
HIBBS, Rev. Richard. b. 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Bishop Hatfield 1841–3; C. of Corton near Lowestoft 1843–8; teacher and preacher at Lowestoft 1848–52; C. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1852; assist. minister St. John’s chapel, Edin. 1852–4, a controversy with the incumbent led him to establish the New Church of England chapel, St. Vincent st. Edin. 1854; C. of Market Lavington 1874–6; chaplain at Lisbon; chaplain at Rotterdam and Utrecht 1876–8; author of The substance of a series of discourses on baptism 1848; Scottish episcopal Romanism, or popery without a pope 1856; Truth vindicated or some account of the New Church of England chapel 1858, 4 ed. 1859; Prussia and the poor, or the systematized relief of the poor at Elberfeld in contrast with that of England 1876, 4 ed. 1883. d. 13 St. Lawrence road, North Kensington, London 26 March 1886. Academy 10 April 1886 pp. 255–6.
HICKEY, Rev. William (eld. son of Rev. Ambrose Hickey, rector of Murragh, co. Cork 1796 to his death in 1826). b. 1787 or 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1804–5, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1832; pensioner St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 March 1806, B.A. 1809; C. of Dunleckny, Leighlin 1811; V. of Bannow, Ferns 1820; founded an agricultural soc. on a farm of 40 acres; a founder of South Wexford agricultural soc., the first of its kind in Ireland; R. of Kilcormuick 1826; R. of Wexford 1831; R. of Mulrankin 1834 to death; endeavoured to improve the husbandry of small farms; author of State of the poor in Ireland 1817; member of R. Dublin soc, gold medallist; civil list pension of £80, 6 Oct. 1853; had pension from R. Literary fund; under the pseudonym of Martin Doyle he wrote Hints to small farmers 1830, numerous editions; Hints on emigration to Upper Canada 1831, 3 ed. 1834; Practical gardening 1833, 2 ed. 1836; A cyclopædia of practical husbandry 1839, new editions 1844, 1851; The farmer’s manual 1868; with Edmund Murphy he conducted the Irish Farmer’s and Gardener’s Magazine 9 vols. 1834–42. d. Mulrankin 24 Oct. 1875. Dublin Univ. Mag., April 1840 pp. 374–6, portrait; Wexford Independent 27 and 30 Oct. 1875.
HICKLEY, Victor Grant (son of J. A. Hickley of Purbrook, Hants.) b. 1823 or 1824; sub-lieut. R.N. 18 Aug. 1842; captain 1 April 1858, retired 8 June 1868; retired admiral 12 April 1886. d. Taunton railway station 27 Jany. 1888.
HICKLIN, John. b. England; editor of Nottingham Journal, and of Chester Courant; author of Church and state. Historic facts ancient and modern. Torquay 1873; Literary recreations. d. 13 Jany. 1877.
HICKS, Agnes Ross (dau. of J. Boss of Campsie, Stirlingshire). b. 1850; ed. under Warwick Jordan, Mus. Bac. organist of St. Stephen’s, Lewisham; soprano singer; first appeared in public at Public hall, Lee, Kent 1875; sang at St. James’ hall, London, her old ballads being in much favor; well known by her singing of Gounod’s ‘Worker.’ (m. George Hicks), she d. 32 Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London 13 March 1886. bur. Norwood cemet. 17 March. The Era, March 1886 p. 13.