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Name
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Hicks, George
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Date of birth
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1846
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Location
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Arlington
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Notes
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Birth / baptism
Wiltshire, Cricklade, 1845, Jul, Aug, Sep, Vol. 8, p 28*;
Cricklade, 14 September, 1845 [AB];
Marriage
Gloucestershire, Northleach, 1870, Jan, Feb, Mar, Vol. 6a, p. 529, George Hicks married Martha Collett.
Death / burial
Gloucestershire, Cirencester, 1924, Apr, May, Jun, Vol. 6a, p 413, age, 78;
18 June, 1924 [AB];
Williams / others comments
Literate [AB]
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 21/6/24 p.5 [Local news, Bibury]
DEATH OF MR GEORGE HICKS
By the death of Mr George Hicks in Fairford Cottage Hospital, at the age of 78, Bibury loses one of its best known and most respected inhabitants. Although not a native, he had spent something like 50 years there, and could never be persuaded, even in his declining years, to leave the solitary cottage in Arlington Row. Hicks was a worker in a sense that is rather rare to-day, for he loved work for its own sake and would far rather work overtime than leave a job unfinished. A series of employers had always found him the same, honest, upright and absolutely reliable. The man who tries to do his own job as well as he possibly can, no matter whether he be a Prime Minister, a member of one of the learned professions or an agricultural labourer, is a valuable asset to the nation, and the world is distinctly poorer by the loss of a character of this description. It was rather pathetic that his end should have come on the actual day of the Bibury Show, for he had often been groundsman there in the past, and this was probably the very first time when his familiar figure was not to be seen in the foreground. Always appreciative of the kind attentions of neighbours and others (e.g. during the last few weeks in hospital he constantly enlarged to his visitors on the wonderfully kind treatment by the doctors and nurses) he was, in a word, one of natures gentlemen.
[Funeral at Bibury, 18/6/24. Assisted by the Vicar of Hatherop who deceased served faithfully for over 15 years. Wreaths from vicars of Bibury and Hatherop.]
My particular thanks to Dr. C J Bearman who researched a number of Gloucestershire singers as part of the Singing Landscape Project, 2008 - 2010 with whose kind permission this obituary is reproduced.
