Frederick Hickford

Frederick Thomas Hickford (5 November 1862 – 15 May 1929)[1] was an Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

Born in Brunswick, Victoria, to signwriter James Hickford and Mary Ann Dowman, he attended Melbourne University and earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1890, his Bachelor of Law in 1892 and his Master of Arts in 1897.

A schoolmaster at Geelong College, he was called to the bar in 1892.

On 28 March 1894 he married Dorothea Margaretha Boehme, with whom he had two children, Julie Hickford (Dr. Harbison), one of the first women physicians in Australia, and Charles Hickford, a pioneer farmer.

In 1902 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for East Bourke Boroughs,[2] but he resigned in 1903 to run for the federal seat of Mernda, without success.