Sidney F. Wicks
Sidney Frederick Wicks (6 March 1882 – 13 February 1956) was a Congregational church, Congregational minister, public speaking trainer, advertising and business manager, and newspaper executive. He conducted public speaking courses and formed what is now the oldest public speaking club in the world initially called The Rostrum but now simply Rostrum. Biography Wicks' father was a blacksmith who worked as farrier at Epsom Downs Racecourse. Wicks was educated at a village school and then became a clerk for a coal merchant. He attended Hackney Academy (later Hackney College), Hackney Theological College, University of London, via correspondence lessons for the Congregational Ministry, and became a Minister at the small Robinson St Congregational Church, Hastings. He later became the minister at the much larger Norwood Congregational Church, Liverpool, where he also studied for a Diploma of Social Science at Liverpool University. He left the ministry as a result of his expe ...
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Epsom
Epsom is the principal town of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about south of central London. The town is first recorded as ''Ebesham'' in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the mid-Bronze Age, but the modern settlement probably grew up in the area surrounding St Martin's Church in the 6th or 7th centuries and the street pattern is thought to have become established in the Middle Ages. Today the High Street is dominated by the clock tower, which was erected in 1847–8. Like other nearby settlements, Epsom is located on the spring line where the permeable chalk of the North Downs meets the impermeable London Clay. Several tributaries of the Hogsmill River rise in the town and in the 17th and early 18th centuries, the spring on Epsom Common was believed to have healing qualities. The mineral waters were found to be rich in ''Epsom salts'', which were later identif ...
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