John Hick was an esteemed English industrialist, art collector and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880, he is associated with the improvement of steam-engin
May 1861 by Francis Grant RA (1803–1878)
Bolton Iron and Steel Company certificate describing,"Steel Tyres, Decarbonized Steel, Boiler & Firebox Plates, Railes Angles & Bars & General Forgings ijn Steel & Wrought Iron, Heavy Solid Cast Steel Anvils. Heavy Castings in Steel.", showing the Nasmyth steam hammer and a 2-2-2 steam locomotive
Mrs Margaret Hick by Francis Grant RA, presented at the Royal Academy of Arts, May 1861
Mytton Hall – entrance c.1893, by Thomas Parkinson, Bolton.
B. Hick & Sons, subsequently Hick, Hargreaves & Co, was a British engineering company based at the Soho Ironworks in Bolton, England. Benjamin Hick, a partner in Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell, later Rot
John Hick (politician)
…and classical education, Hick entered Benjamin Hick's Soho Works following school and from a young age, management of the Bolton engineering firm Benjamin Hick & Sons in partnership with his father during 1833. About 1839, 'John Hick Jr' was awarded the silver medal by the Society of Arts for his novel invention of…
Portrait c.1840 of Benjamin Hick, founder of B. Hick & Sons by George Patten ARA (1801–1865)
Drawing of Benjamin Hick's patent 3-cylinder steam-carriage and disc wheel from Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, 1836.
B. Hick & Son 6 hp steam engine, mill-gear and ornamental column at the Great Exhibition. Photograph 1851 by Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811–1889) from the Reports of the Juries.
Entrepreneur, William Hargreaves JP c.1880, from a Photograph by Alex Bassano 25 Old Bond St. W. "Ink-Photo." Sprague & Co. London. Inscribed Mr Hargreaves Moss Bank Halliwell Bolton