Francis Hickes (1566 - 1631)

Francis Hickes was a translator, was born in 1566 at Shipston, in the parish of Tredington, Worcestershire. He spent most of his life at Barston and Shipston, died at Sutton in Gloucestershire, at the house of a kinsman, on 9 Jan. 1630–1. His only published translation was ‘Certaine Select Dialogues of Lucian: together with his True Historie, translated from the Greeke into English,’ Oxford, 1634, with a life of Lucian by his son Thomas. It was reprinted with Jasper Mayne's ‘Part of Lucian made English,’ Oxford, 1664. Hickes left in manuscript: ‘The History of the Wars of Peloponnesus, in 8 Books, written by Thucydides the Athenian.’ ‘The History of Herodian, beginning from the Reign of the Emperor Marcus.’ These manuscripts were placed by Hickes's son in the library of Christ Church, Oxford