Edward Hicks (MP)

Edward Hicks (1814 – 13 January 1889),[1] born Edward Simpson, was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1879 to 1885.

He was educated at Charterhouse School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

In 1862 he was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and vice-chairman of the Quarter Sessions.

[5] At the 1885 general election he unsuccessfully contested the newly created Newmarket division of Cambridgeshire.

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