John Wale Hicks FRCP was an Anglican bishop,[1] educationalist and author in the second half of the nineteenth century.[2] He was identified with the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism.
He was born in 1840 and studied at the University of London[3] and at St Thomas's Hospital[4] before entering Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1866.[5] Ordained in 1871,[6] his first post was a curacy at Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. A multi-disciplinary scientist, he was elected a fellow of Sidney Sussex College in 1874,[7] where he published "books on both doctrine and inorganic chemistry".[8] He was later elected Dean of Sidney Sussex and in 1892 chosen to succeed George Wyndham Knight-Bruce as Bishop of Bloemfontein,[9][10] a post he held until his death on 12 October 1899.[11][12] There is a memorial window to him in Clawton parish church.[13]