, a man of learning of the sixteenth century, was born in 1566,
, a man of learning of the sixteenth
century, was born in 1566, atTredington, in Worcestershire, and in 1579 entered of St. Mary hall, Oxford, which
he left after taking his bachelor’s degree, and appears to
have lived the life of a country gentleman, relieving his
agricultural pursuits by study. His favourite object was
the Greek language. He died while on a visit to a relation
at Sutton, in Gloucestershire, Jan. 9, 1630. His translation of “Lucian
” was published by his son Thomas Hicks,
A. M. chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, in Ifc34, 4to,
who also presented to the library of that college manuscript translations by his father of “Thucydides
” and
“Herodian.
” The Life of Lucian and the notes were
written by this son, who died young, in 1634, and had
been, as Wood says, esteemed a good poet and an excellent limner.