HICKS, Edward (only son of Edward Simpson of Lichfield). b. 10 Aug. 1814; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836; student of Inner Temple 1837; assumed surname of Hicks on succeeding his kinsman Rev. James Hicks 1835; sheriff of Cam. 1862; master of harriers; M.P. Cambs. 1879–85; contested Newmarket division 1885. d. Wilbraham Temple, Cambridge 13 Jany. 1889.
HICKS, Sir Francis (youngest son of John Hicks of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 1821; treasurer of St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1865 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 June 1871 on opening of new St. Thomas’s hospital. d. Margate 1 Sep. 1877 in 57 year. Times 4 Sep. 1877 p. 9.
HICKS, George. Entered Bengal army 7 Sep. 1808; col. 70 Bengal N.I. 7 May 1854 to 1869; L.G. 28 Oct. 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 24 Oct. 1873.
HICKS, Mary (dau. of John and Sarah Roden). bapt. Broseley, Salop 14 Nov. 1773; she however said she was dau. of Samuel and Mary Roden and bapt. Broseley 15 Feb. 1767. (m. at Isleworth, John Hicks who d. 1848). d. Brentford workhouse 24 Nov. 1870 aged 97. W. J. Thoms’ Longevity (1879) 236–42.
HICKS, Newton Tree (son of Cecil Hicks, who d. 15 March 1866). b. 4 Sep. 1811; appeared as Richard 3rd at Royalty theatre, London 1824; played at the Coburg, the New Brunswick and Surrey theatres; in the provinces 6 or 7 years; made the round of metropolitan theatres; known by sobriquet of Bravo or Brayvo Hicks; some of his characters were Fabian in The Black Doctor; Monte Christo at the Surrey, June 1848; Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback, and Leopold in The Jewess; retired from the stage about 1863; lived in Hogarth’s house, Hogarth lane, Chiswick. d. 21 Feb. 1873. Theatrical Times, ii 17 (1847), portrait, iii 209 (1848), portrait; Era 2 March 1873 p. 11.
Note.—His brother Cecil Hicks pianist at the Canterbury, Cambridge and Foresters’ music halls, d. 19 Jany. 1888. bur. Ilford cemet. 29 Jany.
HICKS, William. b. 29 April 1831; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 3 March 1851; served in India in campaign of 1857–9, with Panjâb movable column, in Rohilkand campaign and under Lord Clyde; captain Bombay Staff Corps 29 Dec. 1861; brigade major in 1 div. in Abyssinian campaign 1867–8; lieut.-col. B.S.C. 29 Dec. 1875 to 1 July 1880; A.A.G. Bombay 3 Dec. 1877 to 1 July 1880; commander of Egyptian army in the Sûdân to suppress the Mahdi’s revolt Feb. 1883 and known as Hicks Pasha, joined his troops at Khartûm, ascended the White Nile to Duem and advanced across the desert to El’Obeyd Sep. 1883, betrayed into an ambuscade and killed with most of his troops at the battle of Kashgil 4 Nov. 1883. J. Colborne’s With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiii, 521 (1883), portrait; Graphic xxviii, 529 (1883), portrait.
HICKS, William Robert (son of William Hicks, schoolmaster, Bodmin, d. 1833). b. Bodmin 1 April 1808; schoolmaster Bodmin 1832–40; clerk of Bodmin board of guardians 1834; domestic superintendent Cornwall county lunatic asylum 1840–60, with the medical officers introduced a more humane treatment of the patients; mayor of Bodmin 1865; a well known story teller, familiar in London as the Yorick of the West; was a proficient in the Cornish and Devonshire dialects, and in miners’ talk. d. Westheath, Bodmin 5 Sep. 1868. Collier’s W. R. Hicks, a memoir (1888), portrait.
HICKSON, George Blake. Called to the bar in Ireland 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837. d. 2 Aug. 1869.
HICKSON, William Edward (son of William Hickson, boot manufacturer, London). b. 7 Jany. 1803; boot maker, partner with his father, retired 1840; a pioneer of national education and of popular musical culture; on the royal commission on condition of handloom weavers 1837, when he visited seats of industry in Great Britain and Ireland; studied national school systems in Holland, Belgium and Germany 1839; editor and proprietor of Westminster Review, vols. 34–45, 1840–52; author of The singing master, instructions for teaching singing in schools and families, 3 parts 1836; Dutch and German schools 1840; Part singing or vocal harmony for choral societies, 4 parts 1842; Time and faith, an enquiry into the data of ecclesiastical history 2 vols. 1857; A musical gift containing 24 new songs 1859. d. Fairseat, Sevenoaks, Kent 22 March 1870.