George Hickes

George Hickes

George Hickes (20 June 1642 O.S. - 15 December 1715 O.S.), English divine and scholar, was born at Newsham near Thirsk, Yorkshire.

Biography

In 1659 he entered St John's College, Oxford, whence after the Restoration he removed to Magdalen College and then to Magdalen Hall. In 1664 he was elected fellow of Lincoln College, and in the following year proceeded M.A. In 1673 he graduated in divinity, and in 1675 he was appointed rector of St Ebbes, Oxford. In 1676, as private chaplain, he accompanied the duke of Lauderdale, the royal commissioner, to Scotland, and shortly afterwards received the degree of D.D. from St Andrews.

In 1680 he became vicar of All Hallows, Barking, London; and after having been made chaplain to the king in 1681, he was in 1683 promoted to the deanery of Worcester. He opposed both James II's declaration of indulgence and Monmouth's rising, and he tried in vain to save from death his nonconformist brother John Hickes (1633-1683) one of the Sedgemoor refugees harboured by Alice Lisle. At the revolution of 1688, having declined to take the oath of allegiance Hickes was first suspended and afterwards deprived of his deanery. When he heard of the appointment of a successor he affixed to the cathedral doors a protestation and claim of right.

After remaining some time in concealment in London, he was sent by Sancroft and the other nonjurors to James II in France on matters connected with the continuance of their episcopal succession; upon his return in 1694 he was himself consecrated suffragan bishop of Thetford in the non-juring church. His later years were largely occupied in controversies and in writing, while in 1713 he persuaded two Scottish bishops, James Gadderar and Archibald Campbell, to assist him in consecrating Jeremy Collier, Samuel Hawes and Nathaniel Spinckes as bishops among the non-jurors.

Writings

The chief writings of Hickes are the "Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae" (1689), and "Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archæologicus" (1703-1705), a work of great learning and industry.

Apart from these two works Hickes was a voluminous and laborious author. His earliest writings, which were anonymous, were suggested by contemporary events in Scotland that gave him great satisfaction: the execution of James Mitchell on a charge of having attempted to murder Archbishop Sharp, and that of John Kid and John King, Presbyterian ministers, for high treason and rebellion ("Ravillac Redivivus", 1678; "The Spirit of Popery speaking out of the Mouths of Phanalical Protestants", 1680). In his "Jovian" (an answer to Samuel Johnson's "Julian the Apostate", 1682), he endeavoured to show that the Roman empire was not hereditary, and that the Christians under Julian had recognized the duty of passive obedience.

His two treatises, one "Of the Christian Priesthood" and the other "Of the Dignity of the Episcopal Order", originally published in 1707, have been more than once reprinted, and form three volumes of the "Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology" (1847). In 1705 and 1710 were published "Collections of Controversial Letters", in 1711 a collection of "Sermons", and in 1726 a volume of "Posthumous Discourses". Other treatises, such as the "Apologetical Vindication of the Church of England", are to be met with in Edmund Gibson's "Preservative against Popery". There is a manuscript in the Bodleian Library which sketches his life to the year 1689, and many of his letters are extant in various collections. A posthumous publication of his "The Constitution of the Catholick Church and the Nature and Consequences of Schism" (1716) gave rise to the celebrated Bangorian controversy.

References

*Article by William Dunn Macray in the "Dictionary of National Biography", vol. xxvi. (1891)
*John Henry Overton, "The Nonjurors" (1902).

*1911


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