off the coast of Iceland. He has been on half-pay since March, 1819. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
HICKLEY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Victor Grant Hickley passed his examination 18 Aug. 1842; served for some time in North America and the West Indies as Mate of the Vindictive 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen; and obtained his commission 2 Jan. 1846. He continued to serve in the Vindictive, as Additional-Lieutenant, until the receipt, 3 Oct. following, of his present appointment in the Vesuvius steam-sloop, Capts. Geo. Wm. Douglas O’Callaghan and Ashley La Touche, in which vessel he is still employed on the above station.
HICKMAN. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 19; h-p., 24.)
John Hickman, born in Jan. 1787, at Islington, co. Middlesex, is son (and one of 11 children) of the late Geo. Hickman, Esq., a gentleman who originally possessed considerable landed property, but afterwards endured great losses.
This officer (having cut and run from the merchant service, after three years of wearisome employment in it) entered the Navy, in March, 1804, on board the Deptford tender, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Antram, lying in the river Thames. Becoming Midshipman, in April, 1805, of the Ramillies 74, Capts. Fras. Pickmore and Robt. Yarker, he witnessed, 13 March, 1806, the capture of the French 80-gun ship Marengo, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, besides aiding in the boats at the cutting-out, in the course of the same year, of a schooner protected by a battery at Martinique, and serving on shore, in Dec. 1807, at the reduction of the Danish West India islands. Towards the close of 1808 he sailed in the Cornelia 36, Capt. Henry Folkes Edgell, for the East Indies, where, in 1810, he joined the Russell 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury, and became Acting-Lieutenant of the Emma armed ship, Capt. Benj. Street. In 1811, having been slightly wounded in the arm during the operations connected with the capture of Ile de Bourbon and the Isle of France, at the latter of which he was the officer who landed and first hoisted the British colours on Fort Cannonier, Mr. Hickman returned home on board the Entreprenante brig, Capt. Edw. Brazier. Being, however, unable to procure his commission, he was under the necessity of again going afloat as Midshipman, in which capacity, and that of Master’s Mate, he was for a further period of 17 months borne on the books of the Onyx sloop, Capt. Hamilton, Thunder bomb, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell, and Revenge 74, flag-ship of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge. As a reward for the services he had during that period rendered in command of a gun-boat at the defence of Cadiz, he was then advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 21 Nov. 1812. He continued off Cadiz, in the Stately 64, Capt. Philip Chas. Butler Bateman, until May, 1813; between which period and Aug. 1814, we find him serving with the flotilla in the North Sea, and attached to the Illustrious 74, and Redwing 18, Capts. Alex. Skene, and Sir John Gordon Sinclair, on the Portsmouth and Mediterranean stations. He next, from 5 April to 12 Aug. 1815, held command of a gun-boat in the Downs; and he was afterwards appointed – 10 Oct. 1829, to the Coast Blockade, in which service, with his name on the books of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, he continued until March, 1831 – 12 July, 1832, to the Ordinary at Sheerness, where he remained until 2 Aug. 1835 – and 9 March, 1843, to the Victory 104, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker. Since the summer of 1846 he has been again on half-pay.
While in the Coast Blockade in 1831 Lieut. Hickman’s exertions in extinguishing a fire which had broken out in a rick-yard proved so valuable that they were reported to the Admiralty. He married, in 1814, Miss Mary Boyle Holt, of Islington, by whom he has issue two sons (William and George, both Clerks in the R.N.) and two daughters. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
HICKS. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 11; h-p., 29.)
Edward Buller Hicks was born, 15 Sept. 1792, in Devonshire, and died 9 Feb. 1845, at Newport, Isle of Wight. He was youngest son of the late Admiral Thos. Hicks; brother of the late Commander Thos. Bickerton Ashton Hicks, R.N.; and godson of Vice-Admiral Sir Edw. Buller, Bart. Paternally he was descended of an old Gloucestershire family; and through his mother he claimed kindred with Lord Chancellor Hyde. Among his ancestors was the distinguished Capt. Jasper Hicks, who, in conjunction with the equally gallant Capt. Jumper, in the barges of their respective ships, attacked and took the Mole of Gibraltar.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Feb. 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Foudroyant 80, commanded by his brother-in-law, Capt. Edw. Kendall, with whom, until the following Oct., he served in the Channel under the flag of Sir Thos. Graves. In June, 1806, he re-embarked on board the Malta 84, Capt. Edw. Buller, in which ship, after witnessing the capture, on 27 of the next Sept., of the French 44-gun frigate Le Président, he proceeded to the Mediterranean; where, in the summer of 1807, he removed to the Queen 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin. Between Oct. 1808 and Aug. 1812 we find him successively employed at home, off Cadiz (during the siege of which place he aided in the boats at the defence of Fort Matagorda), again in the Mediterranean, and at Newfoundland, on board the Salvador del Mondo and San Josef, flag-ships of Admirals Wm. Young and Sir John Thos. Duckworth, Hibernia 110, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, and Antelope 50, bearing also the flag of Sir J. T. Duckworth. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Electra sloop, Capt. Wm. Gregory, in which vessel (being confirmed to her by commission dated 2 Dec. 1812) he continued to serve on the Newfoundland station until April, 1814, contributing during that period to the capture, after a short running fight, of the American privateer Growler, of 5 guns and 60 men. His last appointments were, in July and Sept. 1815, to the Tigre and Spencer 74’s, Capts. John Halliday and Wm. Robt. Broughton, both lying at Plymouth. The latter ship was paid off 31 Aug. 1818.
Lieut. Hicks married, 1 June, 1820, Sarah, only daughter of the late Thos. Atkinson, Esq., of Berry House, co. Hants.
HICKS. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 33.)
John Hicks was born 6 Nov. 1792.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 Sept. 1805, as a Volunteer, on board the Powerful 74, Capts. Robt. Plampin, Rich. Buck, Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and Chas. Jas. Johnston. Proceeding in that ship to the East Indies, he there (besides assisting at the capture of the privateers La Henriette, of 20 guns and 124 men, and La Bellone,[1] of 30 guns and 194 men) served as Midshipman in the boats at the capture and destruction, 27 Nov. 1806, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia Roads. On 11 Dec. 1807 he similarly contributed to the annihilation, at Griessee, of the dockyard and stores, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in the East Indies. On his ultimate return to Europe Mr. Hicks accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren, where, during the bombaidment of Flushing, he commanded a gun-boat under the very walls of that city, and was in the end towed out with the loss of his mast, and of 1 man killed and 1 wounded. His conduct on the occasion, we may add, was deservedly marked by the approbation of his Captain. From Oct. 1809 to Feb. 1812 he again served with Capt. Plampin on board the
- ↑ La Bellone was not taken until after a running fight of considerable length, in which 1 of her men was killed and 6 or 7 wounded. The Powerful on the occasion had 2 killed and 61 wounded [errata 1].
