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Hicks was born in 1904 in Warwick, England, and was the son of Edward Hicks, editor and part proprietor of the Warwick and Leamington Spa Courier newspaper, and Dorothy Catherine, née Stephens, daughter of a non-conformist minister. [2] [3]
An obituary for Finch asserted that the compensation payment made at the time was because Finch had punched the Station Master [27] [note: the original Leamington railway station buildings were demolished in the 1930s: the modern Leamington Spa railway station is now on the same site [40]].
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington [note 1] (/ ˈ l ɛ m ɪ ŋ t ən / ⓘ), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England.Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following the popularisation of its water which was reputed to have medicinal qualities. [2]
He was head hunted by Royal Leamington Spa-based auction house Locke and England, [3] and he joined them in 1978 as a manager and valuer. He later became a partner, retiring from the business in 2003. [4] Barby was an expert on "everything from Victorian porcelain to antique oak pedestal desks". [5]
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Born in 1901, Pollock served in the Merchant Navy during the First World War and then worked as a journalist with the Leamington Spa Courier. He was a sub-editor at the Daily Chronicle between 1922 and his call to the bar in 1928. He carried on working in journalism alongside his legal practice until 1933 when he focused solely on the bar.
By this time the church was no longer in open fields just to the north of a hamlet, but was in the centre of a bustling spa town. (Two of Leamington's town founders, Benjamin Satchwell and William Abbotts, are buried in the churchyard.) The main construction took place between 1843 and 1869, overseen and largely funded by vicar John Craig. [5]
He was the fifth child and fourth son of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet and his first wife Elizabeth Emma Parry, born 11 February 1814, [2] at Leek Wootton, Warwickshire.