Hickford Park
Hickford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Frederick Hickford (1862–1929), Australian politician * John Hickford, British dancemaster. Owned Hickford's Long Room 1713 — c.1779. *Michael Hickford Michael Francis Hickford was an Anglican priest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was born on 7 October 1953, educated at Gravesend Grammar School and ordained after a period of study at Edinburgh Theological College in 1986. He was ...

Frederick Hickford
Frederick Thomas Hickford (5 November 1862 – 15 May 1929) was an Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Born in Brunswick, Victoria, to signwriter James Hickford and Mary Ann Dowman, he attended Melbourne University and earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1890, his Bachelor of Law in 1892 and his Master of Arts in 1897. A schoolmaster at Geelong College, he was called to the bar in 1892. On 28 March 1894 he married Dorothea Margaretha Boehme, with whom he had two children, Julie Hickford (Dr. Harbison), one of the first women physicians in Australia, and Charles Hickford, a pioneer farmer. He was a partner in various law firms from around 1897 until his death. In 1902 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for East Bourke Boroughs, but he resigned in 1903 to run for the federal seat of Mernda, without success. From 1906 to 1918 he was a Brunswick City Councillor, serving as mayor from 1909 to 1910. He visited the Uni ...
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Hickford's Long Room
Hickford's Long Room was a public concert room in London, which ran from April 1713 to about 1779. It was paid for on a subscription basis to those who could afford to patronize the arts, such as the nobility. The 1922 Groves noted that "most of the great performers, both vocal and instrumental, who visited England, gave their concerts there." The room became a place to see successful musicians play, including   Francesco Scarlatti (1719 & 1724), Francesco Geminiani (c. 1732), Gluck in 1746, Mozart (1765), Francesco Maria Veracini, Pietro Castrucci and Matthew Dubourg. For a time in the 1740s and 50s, it was the only concert room of note in the West End of London. John Hickford A 1922 source reports that "little is known" of the venue's founder, John Hickford. He was a "dancing-master in the latter part Queen Anne's reign", and his room was one of two in the west end of London with sufficient room for concerts. As artists approached him to use his room, he developed a rep ...
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