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Robert Hicks (other)
Robert Hicks or Bob Hicks may refer to: * Barbecue Bob (1902–1931), early American blues musician born Robert Hicks * Bob Hicks (activist) (1929–2010), American civil rights activist in Louisiana * Bob Hicks (American football) (1921–2012), American college football coach * Bobby Hicks (born 1933), American bluegrass fiddler * Robert C. Hicks (1927–2018), American college football coach * Robert Drew Hicks (1850–1929), English classical scholar * Robert Hicks (American author) (1951–2022), American author and preservationist * Robert Hicks (American football) (born 1974), NFL offensive tackle * Robert Hicks (Australian footballer) (born 1991), Australian rules footballer * Robert Hicks (British politician) (born 1938), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Cornish constituencies * Robert Hicks (Canadian politician) (1933–2014), Canadian Progressive Conservative politician See also * Hicks (other) Hicks is a surname. Hicks may also refer to: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbecue Bob
Robert Hicks, better known as Barbecue Bob (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931), was an early American Piedmont blues musician. His nickname was derived from his working as a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the three extant photographs of him show him playing a guitar and wearing a full-length white apron and cook's hat. Early life Hicks was born in Walnut Grove, Georgia. His parents, Charlie and Mary Hicks, were farmers. He and his brother, Charlie Hicks, together with Curley Weaver, were taught how to play the guitar by Curley's mother, Savannah "Dip" Weaver.Barlow, William (1989). ''"Looking Up at Down": The Emergence of Blues Culture''. Temple University Press. pp. 195–96. . Bob began playing the 6-string guitar but picked up the 12-string guitar after moving to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1924. He became one of the prominent performers of the newly developing Atlanta blues style. In Atlanta, Hicks worked at various jobs, playing music on the side. While working at Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hicks (activist)
Robert Hicks (February 20, 1929 – April 13, 2010) was a prominent leader in Bogalusa, Louisiana during the Civil Rights Movement, whose activism helped put an end to segregation and discriminatory practices in education, housing, employment, public accommodations and healthcare. Best known for his leading role in founding the Bogalusa chapter of The Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed African-American self-defense group, Hicks led daily protests on the streets of Jim Crow-era Bogalusa. He served as President and later Vice President of the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League, and the plaintiff in a series of civil rights lawsuits which achieved groundbreaking legal victories nationwide. Biography Early life and family Robert Hicks was born on February 20, 1929, in Pachuta, Mississippi, the youngest child of Quitman and Maybell Crawford Hicks. He moved to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with his family when he was a young child. In 1947, he graduated from the segregated Central Memo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hicks (American Football)
Robert Bruce Hicks (July 12, 1921 – November 24, 2012) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Indiana University for one season in 1957, compiling a record of 1–8. Hicks was born on July 12, 1921, in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He attended Hazleton High School, where he played football and basketball before earning a football scholarship from the University of Tennessee. Hicks died on November 24, 2012. Head coaching record References 2012 deaths 1921 births Indiana Hoosiers football coaches Tennessee Volunteers football players Wyoming Cowboys football coaches People from Hazleton, Pennsylvania Players of American football from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania {{1950s-collegefootball-coach-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Hicks
Bobby Hicks (born July 21, 1933) is a Grammy Awardbr>winningAmerican bluegrass fiddler and a professional musician with more than fifty years of experience. Career Hicks was born in Newton, North Carolina and learned to play the fiddle before he was 9 years old. He attended several fiddlers conventions and at the age of eleven, he won the "North Carolina State Championship" playing the tune "Black Mountain Rag". He joined Jim Eanes band in the early fifties. In 1953, he was, through the bluegrass festivals arranger Carlton Haney, hired as a bass player in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. He did not record with the Bluegrass Boys until December 31, 1954, by then he had switched to fiddle. During this period, he learned to play "Nashville swing" by the session fiddler Dale Potter, a style Hicks often used when playing with Bill Monroe on the road. Monroe dubbed Hicks ''"the truest fiddler he had ever heard"''. He recorded seven tunes with Monroe but had to quit in 1956 to join the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert C
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Drew Hicks
Robert Drew Hicks (29 June 1850 – 8 March 1929) was a classical scholar, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. The son of William Hicks, head clerk in the post office at Bristol,Alumni Cantabrigienses part II, vol. III, John Venn, 1944, pg 360 Hicks was born in 1850, was educated at Bristol Grammar School,The Times, Saturday, Mar 09, 1929; p. 14 - and entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1868.Herbert S. Long, Preface to the 1972 reprint of Diogenes Laërtius, ''Lives of Eminent Philosophers'', I. Loeb Classical Library Graduating BA in 1874, he became a fellow of Trinity in 1876. He was college lecturer in Classics from 1884 to 1900. He married Bertha Mary Heath in 1896, who herself held an MA in Classics from the University of London. His brother-in-law was Sir Thomas Heath. Between 1898 and 1900 Robert Hicks became blind, but he nevertheless produced most of his major works after this time, aided by his wife. He died at his home, Fossedene, at Mount Pleasant, Cambridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hicks (American Author)
Robert Benjamin Hicks III (January 30, 1951 – February 25, 2022) was an American author. He wrote The New York Times Bestseller ''The Widow of the South'' and has played a major role in preserving the historic Carnton mansion, a focal point in the Battle of Franklin which occurred on November 30, 1864. ''Nashville Lifestyles'' Magazine recently named Robert as the #2 in the top 100 Reasons to Love Nashville, describing him as Nashville's "Master of Ceremonies". Life and career Robert Hicks was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 30, 1951. He moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1974 and lived near the Bingham Community at "Labor in Vain," his late-eighteenth-century log cabin. Working over the years as a music publisher and in artist management in both country and alternative-rock music, Hicks's interests have remained varied. A partner in the B. B. King's Blues Clubs in Nashville, Memphis, Orlando and Los Angeles, Hicks served as "Curator of Vibe" for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hicks (American Football)
Robert Otis Hicks Jr. (born November 17, 1974) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills from 1998 until 2000. He played college football at Mississippi State University and was drafted by Buffalo in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft The 1998 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 18–19, 1998, at the Theater at M .... References 1974 births Living people American football offensive tackles Buffalo Bills players Mississippi State Bulldogs football players Players of American football from Atlanta {{offensive-lineman-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hicks (Australian Footballer)
Robert Hicks (born 9 October 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ... (AFL). Hicks was drafted to Richmond from the Calder Cannons in the TAC Cup with the 7th selection in the 2010 Rookie draft. References External links * 1991 births Living people Richmond Football Club players Coburg Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Calder Cannons players {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hicks (British Politician)
Sir Robert Adrian Hicks (born 18 January 1938) is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Hicks unsuccessfully contested Aberavon in 1966. He was Member of Parliament for Bodmin from 1970 to February 1974 (when the seat was temporarily gained by the Liberals) and from October 1974 to 1983. After boundary changes, he was MP for South East Cornwall from 1983 until he stood down in 1997. In 1999, he came out in support of the Pro Euro Conservative Party. References *''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', Times Newspapers Limited News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK, formerly News International and NI Group) is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. It is the current publisher o ..., October 1974 and 1992 editions. External links * 1938 births Living people Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hicks (Canadian Politician)
Robert Nelson David Hicks (4 June 1933 – 25 November 2014) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He became a teacher and school principal by career. Hicks studied at McMaster University and the University of Ottawa. He was an educator and served as principal of Joseph Howe Senior Public School in Toronto. He represented the Ontario riding of Scarborough East which he won in the 1984 federal election and was re-elected in 1988. He served in the 32nd and 33rd Canadian Parliaments, then left national politics in 1993 and did not campaign in that year's federal election. He died at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge, Ontario Bracebridge is a town and the seat of the Muskoka District Municipality in Ontario, Canada. The town was built around a waterfall on the Muskoka River in the centre of town, and is known for its other nearby waterfalls (Wilson's Falls, High Falls ... on 25 November 2014. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
