Hickes

Hickes, GEORGE, nonjuror and philologist, was born at Newsham, Yorkshire, June 20, 1642. He studied at Oxford, in 1664 was elected Fellow of Lincoln College, and in 1666 took holy orders. In 1676 he became chaplain to the Duke of Lauderdale, whom he accompanied to Edinburgh. In 1678 he received the degree of D.D. from the university of Glasgow, and next year from Oxford. In 1682 he was appointed one of the king's chaplains, and the following year made Dean of Worcester. Refusing at the Revolution to take the oaths to King William III., he was deprived of all his benefices. In 1693 he was sent with a list of the nonjuring clergy to the exiled king at St Germain, and in 1694 was consecrated by a prelate of his own party Suffragan Bishop of Thetford. His publications in controversial and practical divinity are numerous. His greatest work, entitled Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus Linguarum Veterum Septentrionalium, appeared at Oxford in 1705, 3 vols. fol., and in 1689 he had published a grammar of Anglo-Saxon and Mæo-Gothic. He died December 15, 1715.