Richard Saladin Hickmet (1 December 1947 – 10 September 2024) was a British Conservative Party politician and barrister who was the MP for Glanford and Scunthorpe from 1983 to 1987.
[1] Of Turkish Cypriot origin,[2][3] Hickmet's father, Ferid Hikmet, emigrated from Cyprus to the UK in the 1930s.
His father and uncle, Nevvar Hikmet, were well known in the Turkish Cypriot community, and opened several restaurants in Soho, London in the 1940s, during World War II.
[1] Hickmet was Member of Parliament for Glanford and Scunthorpe, which he won in the Conservative landslide at the 1983 general election.
Hickmet was later an unsuccessful candidate at the Eastbourne by-election in 1990 caused by the murder of Ian Gow.