Basic Biographical Details

Name:	William Searle Hicks
Designation:
Born:	1849
Died:	21 November 1902
Bio Notes:	William Searle Hicks was born in 1849 and was a great nephew of Sir Charles Barry. In 1866 he was articled to the Newcastle architects Thomas Austin & Robert James Johnson who had bought John Dobson's practice in the previous year. In or about 1875 Austin died and Johnson took Hicks into partnership, the practice title then becoming Austin, Johnson & Hicks, but in 1882 this partnership was dissolved. In 1885 Hicks took his brother-in-law Henry Clement Charlewood into partnership. Born on 15 May 1853 at Kinoulton Nottinghamshire, Charlewood was educated at Marlborough College and articled to Joseph Stretch Crowther in 1874-78. In 1879 he travelled in Italy, thereafter gaining further experience in the offices of George Tunstal Redmayne and John William Alexander of Middlesborough from 1880. He passed the qualifying exam early in 1888 and was admitted ARIBA on 11 June, his proposers being Thomas Worthington, Redmayne, and John Holden. Hicks died at Gosforth on 21 November 1902.

Private and Business Addresses

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	Address	Type	Date from	Date to	Notes
	3, Roseworth Villas, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England	Private

Employment and Training

Employers

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	Name	Date from	Date to	Position	Notes
	Hicks & Charlewood	1880s		Partner

Buildings and Designs

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	Date started	Building name	Town, district or village	Island	City or county	Country	Notes
	1893	MacPherson Memorial Fountain	Blairgowrie		Perthshire	Scotland

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