Brigadier-General Thomas Edgecumbe Hickman, CB, DSO (25 July 1859 – 23 October 1930) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician.
[2] From 1884 to 1894 and again from 1896 to 1900 he was attached to the Egyptian Army, serving in the Camel Corps during the Mahdist War.
[6][7] That year he transferred to South Africa to serve in the Second Boer War, which had started in October 1899.
[1] He was placed on half-pay on return to the United Kingdom, and officially retired from the army with the rank of brigadier-general in April 1914.
[1] With the outbreak of World War I Hickman returned to the army, and was appointed general officer commanding the 109th Brigade, 36th (Ulster) Division, in September 1914.