[1][2][3] Their father died in London, in 1865;[4] as a surgeon and dentist in Carlisle, he had married Harriet Bridges of Lichfield in 1851.
[5] Bickley passed the preliminary examination for Civil Service clerks in 1876.
[7] He encountered criticism, with his biography of Richard Carpenter (died c.1670) called too close to one written in Biographia Britannia.
[8] Other works included: The Barn at Beccles (1891) was a play co-written with George Hughes.
[11] Bickley married Anna Louisa Ball of Knaphill, Surrey at Woking, on 14 June 1887.