Henry Tempest Hicks
Brigadier-General Henry Tempest Hicks CB JP (25 November 1852[1] – 10 November 1922[2]) was a British Army officer who served in the South African War and was mentioned in despatches three times and subsequently made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He later served in Aden.
Early life
[edit]Tempest Hicks was born in 1852, the son of George H. Tempest Hicks of Hillgrove, Wells. He was educated at Harrow School and the University of Cambridge.[3]
Military career
[edit]Tempest Hicks served in the South African War in command of the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He was mentioned in despatches three times and subsequently made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He later served in Aden. He reached the rank of brigadier general. In 1907, Hicks's address was given as Gladsmuir, Monken Hadley.[3]
Family
[edit]Hicks married in 1885 Anna Clara Georgina Hemery, daughter of Charles Hemery of Monken Hadley.[3] The couple had children Captain Charles Edward Henry Tempest-Hicks, who died in action 1918,[4] and Anne Monica Georgiana Tempest-Hicks, who married Thomas Hall Rokeby Plumer, 2nd Viscount Plumer, son of Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, in 1919. Anne died 2 May 1963.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Brigadier-General Tempest-Hicks". The Times. No. 43186. 11 November 1922. p. 13.
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 43186. 11 November 1922. p. 1.
- ^ a b c Wills, Walter H. (Ed.) (1907) The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook, 1907, p. 175.
- ^ CHARLES EDWARD HENRY TEMPEST-HICKS. Every Man Remembered, Royal British Legion. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
External links
[edit]- http://www.thepeerage.com/p24072.htm
- http://family-tree.cobboldfht.com/tree/view/person:8438
- http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp61994/anne-monica-georgiana-plumer-nee-tempest-hicks-viscountess-plumer
- http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25618/25618-h/25618-h.htm
- British Army generals of World War I
- Royal Dublin Fusiliers officers
- 1852 births
- 1922 deaths
- People from Wells, Somerset
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- People educated at Harrow School
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
- Military personnel from London
- British Army brigadiers
- British Army personnel stubs