Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Hicks, William J.
Dates of creation: 1871-1909
Extent: 1 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Hicks, William J.
Language:
English
(1855 - 1940)
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| 1870s | Served with the Royal Artillery |
| 1884 | Appointed Captain in the Royal Artillery |
| 1891 | Appointed Major in the Royal Artillery |
| 1898 | Retired from service |
1. Personal Papers
Purchased from Dominic Winter Auctions (who attributed papers to the family of Hicks Pasha), 2005
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.904/9/1-8
1871
Four letters to W.J. Hicks at Marlborough College, Wiltshire and at home in Shirehampton, Gloucestershire from friends and family:
SAD.904/9/1-2
F.W. Dunston at Wadham College, Oxford re friends at Marlborough College
SAD.904/9/3-4
J. Stedman from Clifton Club inviting him for lunch
SAD.904/9/5-6
His father William [Charles] Hicks (c.1809-c.1896) at Shirehampton re a visit to the new docks at Avonmouth
SAD.904/9/7-8
H.R. Armstrong at Marlborough with school news
SAD.904/8/1-68
[undated, ca. 1905]
Unofficial three part memorandum on the need for reserve officers at home and abroad, specifically in India, and on how those needs should be met. With figures on current reserve, estimated loss in war, and sections on guardsmen, battalions,
cavalry, infantry and royal artillery, and how to encourage the “military spirit” in school boys. Author unknown
SAD.904/10-904/11
1909 Jan
“Long leaves”, an account by a garrison gunner, written retrospectively from diaries of travel to and in India, incorporating historical notes from published sources and including genealogical and chronological
charts. Anonymous, but with colophon “Dorking 1902” where W.J. Hicks was resident in 1911. Divided into 15 chapters:
SAD.904/10/3-7
Chapter 1: travels in Spain
SAD.904/10/23-42
Chapter 3: Red Sea and Aden
SAD.904/10/72-85
Chapter 7: The Arabian Nights
SAD.904/11/7-18
Chapter 10: North West Provinces
SAD.904/11/19-41
Chapter 11: Vijayanagar – Bijapur – Mahabaleshwar
SAD.904/11/42-53
Chapter 12: Southern India
SAD.904/11/54-72
Chapter 13: Hindu religion
SAD.904/11/73-89
Chapter 14: Skeleton history of India
SAD.904/11/90-103
Chapter 15: The English in India
SAD.905/1-905/2
[undated, ca. 1909]
Account following on from the above travels in India through various countries in the Far East and then to Canada, incorporating historical notes. Anonymous, but with colophon “Dorking 1902” where W.J. Hicks was
resident in 1911:
SAD.905/2/30-43
Nikko and Kamakura - departure from Japan
SAD.904/9/9-13
1909 Jan 21
Genealogy and list of names of the Ommaiyad Khalifs (ca. 579-1031) of Damascus who also ruled at Cordova in Spain and the Abbasid Khalifs of Baghdad (ca. 750-1258). Author unknown
