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Elias Hicks (1748-1830), born in Hempstead, New York to John Hicks and Martha Hicks (neé Smith) was a member of a Quaker 'Society of Friends' in Philadelphia which split in 1820. A travelling liberal Quaker preacher, he is perhaps best known as a slavery abolitionist. Founder of the 'Charity Society of Jerico and Westbury Meetings in 1794' Wrote 'Observations on the Slavery of Africans and Their Descendents' in 1811. He had 11 children with his wife Jemima Hicks (neé Seaman).

Hicks, Eric Raymond, second son of Charles Oliver Hicks, of Ealing, by Ellen Louisa, daughter of William Hedges, of Ealing; b. March 3, 1897; adm. May 4, 1911 (A); left July 1914; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. Aug. 1, 1915; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. Nov. 26, 1915; Lieut.; served on the western front July to Nov. 1916, at Salonika Nov. 1916 - May 1917, and sub­ sequently in Palestine, where he acted as Intelligence Officer on Headquarters Staff and as A.D.C. to Generals Drake and Robinson; M.C. Jan. 1, 1917; d. of pneumonia at 17th Military Hospital, Alexandria, Dec. 25, 1918; unm.

HICKS, GEORGE ARTHUR, eldest son of Robert Hicks MD MRCS LSA, Baldock, Herts., and Frances Penn (IGI); b. 3 Sep 1857; adm. 21 Jan 1875 (G); left Aug 1876; Keble Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1876; BA 1884; schoolmaster, Scarborough, Yorks. (1881 Census); Cuddesdon Theol. College 1895; ordained 1895; Curate, Burghclere, Hampshire 1895-7, Holy Innocents, Hornsey, Middlesex 1897-1902; Vicar of Fingringhoe, Essex, from 1902; m.; d. 16 Oct 1914.

HICKS, JOHN WILKINSON, eldest son of John Hicks, Bradenham Manor, Bucks, and Susanna Jemima, dau. of Isaac Webb Horlock (IGI), Box, Wilts.; bapt. 8 Dec 1788; adm.; in school list 1801; KS 1802; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1806, but went to Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 May 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Jan 1809; d. 21 Jan 1810.

Hicks, Philip Arthur, brother of Andrew Charles Hicks (qv); b. 25 Nov. 1921; adm. Jan. 1936 (H); left July 1940; RNVR in WW2 (Lieut. ); an architect, ARIBA 1952, FRIBA 1969; practised in London, Scotland and Canada.

Hicks, Richard George Vyvyan, son of Vyvyan George Hooper Hicks, solicitor, and Winifred Heyhoe, d. of Rev. Richard Warcup Pitt, Rector of Saxlingham, Norfolk; b. 28 Mar. 1923; adm. Jan. 1937 (H); left July 1941; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1941, BA 1944; REME 1944-5 (Lieut.); d. of typhoid fever (Bombay) 3 July 1945.

Richard George Vyvyan Hicks was born in Norfolk on the 28th of March 1923 the only son of Vyvyan George Hooper Hicks, a solicitor, and Winifred Heyhoe (nee Pitt) Hicks of “The Grove”, Scarning in Norfolk He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from January 1937 to July 1941. He matriculated for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1941 and achieved a BA in 1944.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on the 12th of February 1944.
He died of typhoid fever at the British Military Hospital, Bombay.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Scarning and on the memorial at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He is buried at Kirkee War Cemetery Plot 2, Row K, grave 9.

HICKS, WILLIAM, son of Francis E. Hicks, Buntingford, Herts.; b. 21 Apr 1852; adm. 15 Jun 1865 (James'); left Dec 1868; adm. solicitor Mich. 1874; living unm. in London 1881 (1881 Census) [m. 28 Mar 1885 Edith Martha, elder dau. of Joseph James FRIBA, The Grove, Hammersmith, Middlesex, architect; but the William Hicks involved in this marriage was the son of Edward H. Hicks (The Times 31 Mar 1885)]; d. 1 Feb 1913. [Presumably William Hicks, son of Francis Edward Hicks and Caroline Mary --- bapt. St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone Road 28 Jul 1852; father was Francis E. Hicks FRCS, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, London]