John Wale Hicks FRCP was an Anglican bishop, educationalist and author in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was identified with the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism.

Life

He was born in 1840 and studied at the University of London and at St Thomas's Hospital before entering

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wife ...

in 1866. Ordained in 1871, 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, where he published "books on both doctrine and inorganic chemistry". He was later elected Dean of Sidney Sussex and in 1892 chosen to succeed George Wyndham Knight-Bruce as Bishop of Bloemfontein, a post he held until his death on 12 October 1899. There is a memorial window to him in Clawton parish church.Genuki (Devon)
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Works

*''A Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry'', 1877 *''The Christian Doctrine of the Godhead'', 1886 *''The Doctrine of Absolution'', 1889 *''The Fall and Restoration of Man'', 1893

External links

by John Wale Hicks

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hicks, John Wale 1840 births Alumni of the University of London Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge English scientists Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians 19th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops Anglo-Catholic bishops Anglican bishops of Bloemfontein 1899 deaths English Anglo-Catholics British emigrants to South Africa