Thomas Hicks

, or Hyckes, Son of Francis Hicks, mention’d under the year 1630, was born at Shipson in the parish of Tredington in Worcestershire, became a Student in Balliol coll. in Mich-Term, an. 1616. aged 17. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, and at length by the favour of Doctor Duppa Dean of Christs Church became one of the Chaplains or Petticanons of that House, about 1628. He hath written,

The life of Lucian, gathered out of his own writings Oxon. 1634. qu. Which life is set before his Fathers translation of certain dialogues of that author.

Notes and illustrations upon each dialogue, and book of Lucian, &c.—Besides his great skill in the Greek rongue, he was esteemed among the Academians a good Poet, and an excellent Limner: And without doubt had not death cut him off in the prime of his years on the sixteenth day of December, in sixteen hundred thirty and four,1634: he might have benefited the Commonwealth of learning with other matters. He died in Christ Church and was buried in the Cathedral there; which is all I yet know of him, only that Dr. J. F. the publisher of Hist. & Antiq. Oxon. committed a grand mistake of him in that book lib. 2. p. 283. b. Another of both his names was author of A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker, &c. To which a continuation was added by the same author, in 1673. in oct.