John Wale Hicks FRCP was an Anglican bishop, [1] educationalist and author in the second half of the nineteenth century. [2] He was identified with the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism.
He was born in 1840 and studied at the University of London [3] and at St Thomas's Hospital [4] before entering Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1866. [5] Ordained in 1871, [6] his first post was a curacy at Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. A multi-disciplinary scientist, he was elected a fellow of Sidney Sussex College in 1874, [7] where he published "books on both doctrine and inorganic chemistry". [8] He was later elected Dean of Sidney Sussex and in 1892 chosen to succeed George Wyndham Knight-Bruce as Bishop of Bloemfontein, [9] [10] a post he held until his death on 12 October 1899. [11] [12] There is a memorial window to him in Clawton parish church. [13]
John Wale Hicks FRCP was an Anglican bishop, [1] educationalist and author in the second half of the nineteenth century. [2] He was identified with the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism.
He was born in 1840 and studied at the University of London [3] and at St Thomas's Hospital [4] before entering Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1866. [5] Ordained in 1871, [6] his first post was a curacy at Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. A multi-disciplinary scientist, he was elected a fellow of Sidney Sussex College in 1874, [7] where he published "books on both doctrine and inorganic chemistry". [8] He was later elected Dean of Sidney Sussex and in 1892 chosen to succeed George Wyndham Knight-Bruce as Bishop of Bloemfontein, [9] [10] a post he held until his death on 12 October 1899. [11] [12] There is a memorial window to him in Clawton parish church. [13]