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John Hick (2 July 1815 – 2 February 1894) was an English industrialist, art collector and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.〔 Hick was the eldest son of Benjamin Hick (1790–1842), a civil engineer, and his wife Elizabeth Routledge (1783–1826), daughter of William Routledge of Elvington Yorkshire.〔 Elizabeth's brother (John's uncle), Joshua Routledge (1773–1829) also an engineer living in Bolton, designed the ''Engineer's Improved Slide Rule'' and patented improvements to the Rotary Steam Engine. Educated at Alderley in Cheshire and Bolton Grammar School Hick was senior partner in the engineering firm of Benjamin Hick and Son, later Hick, Hargreaves, & Co and a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers〔 in 1845.〔 He was Church Warden for James Slade, Governor of Bolton Grammar School,〔 Town councillor for nine years from 1844,〔 a member of the Society of Arts,〔 founder member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers from 1847 until 1852,〔 member of the London Association of Foreman Engineers and Draughtsman, National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in England and Wales, Justice of the Peace for the Borough of Bolton and Salford Hundred,〔 liberal patron of the fine arts〔(Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870 )〕 and a director of the London and North Western Railway〔 under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Moon and Lord Stalbridge, from 1871 until his death. In 1839 (age 23) while working for B. Hick and Son, John Hick Jr as he was referred to at the time, was awarded the Silver Medal by the Society of Arts for his novel invention of an expanding mandrel for turning lathes, it was an adaptation of a principle developed by Marc Brunel for pully block manufacture at Portsmouth and received the praise of three eminent engineers; Bryan Donkin, Joshua Field and John Rennie. During 1842 Hick was awarded a second silver medal by the Society of Arts for his invention of an Elliptograph; the device provided a simple and accurate solution for the drawing ''ellipsoid forms'' of various proportions. Hick received further praise from James Nasmyth, William Fairbairn, Joseph Whitworth, and amongst others, Charles Holtzapffel, Chairman of the Committee of Mechanics. Models of both devices were placed in the Society's repository.〔 Hick contributed a paper to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 1849 on a friction clutch ''for connecting and disconnecting the driving power with shafts and machinery''.〔 ==Marriage== John Hick married Margaret Bashall (1824–1872), eldest daughter of industrialist William Bashall, partner in Bashall & Boardman of Farington Lodge, near Preston on 24 June 1846.〔 Following Margaret Hick's death in 1872, he married the sister of his son-in-law, Rebecca Maria Ashworth (1838–1908),〔 eldest daughter of Edmund Ashworth JP (1800–1881) of Egerton Hall on 16 December 1874 at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham;〔 the couple were married by Margaret Hick's cousin and brother-in-law Reverend William Bashall (1830–1902), Vicar of Deane, Lancashire,〔 by special licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald Tait. Edmund Ashworth was a cotton manufacturer, proprietor of E. Ashworth & Sons and Egerton Mill, founder member of the Anti-Corn Law League with his brother Henry Ashworth (1794–1880)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://egertonvillage.medianewsonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7 )〕 JP, in association with John Bright and Richard Cobden (Henry Ashworth's brother-in-law), and supporter of reforming, anti-slavery and peace organisations. The Ashworths are both thought to have been Oswald Millbank in Benjamin Disraeli's novel ''Coningsby''. The two families (Hick and Ashworth) were linked by marriage in 1868 when Hick's first child and eldest daughter Margaret (1847–1929) married Edmund Ashworth Jr (1833–1901). The ''highly respected'' Reverend Bashall retired〔 to the position of curate at St Barnabas church, Addison Road, Kensington from about 1876 until his death in 1902. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Hick (MP)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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