One of his daughters was Anna Huick, wife of Sir Mark Steward (1524-1604), MP, of Stuntney in Cambridgeshire.
[1] Huick was an academic of the University of Oxford and served as Principal of St Alban Hall from 1535 to 1536.
He was also a physician and was briefly a Member of the Parliament of England for Wootton Bassett in 1547 and for Camelford in March 1553.
A man of solid learning he regarded the writings of the schoolmen with contempt, calling them `the destruction of good wits,' The commissary thought this sufficient reason for depriving him of his office; nor was he restored, though the members of the hall petitioned Cromwell on 13 September 1535 in his favour (Letters, &c., of Henry VIII, ed.
He was censor of the College of Physicians in 1541, 1556, 1557, 1558, and 1559; was named an elect in 1550, was president in 1551, 1552, and 1564, and consiliarius in 1553, 1559, 1560, and 1561.
Dr. John Croke, who tried the suit, gave sentence in favour of Mrs. Huicke.
Edward VI, by letters patent dated 4 July 1550, appointed Huicke his physician extraordinary, with the annual stipend of 50l.
On 28 Feb. 1561-2 the sub-warden and fellows of Merton College addressed a letter to Sir William Cecil in favour of Huicke's appointment as warden of that house (Cal.
He took part in the Physic Act kept at Cambridge on 7 August 1564, `her majesty merrily jesting with him when he desired her licence.'
He was subsequently appointed chief physician to the queen, who in 1570 granted him a mansion called 'White Webbs House,' in Enfield, Middlesex (Lysons, Environs, ii.
By 1575 he had apparently got rid of his wife, for on 2 November of that year, being then resident in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, he obtained a general license to marry Mary Woodcocke, spinster, of the city of London (Chester, London Marriage Licences, ed.
His wife Mary survived him, together with three daughters, Ann, Atalanta, married to William Chetwynde, and Elizabeth.