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Authorised form of nameHicks; John Braxton (1823 - 1897)
Dates1823 - 1897
Date of birth23 February 1823
Place of deathThe Brackens, Lymington, Hampshire
Date of death28 August 1897
OccupationPhysician; Surgeon
Research fieldObstetrics
Natural history
ActivityEducation:
Apprenticed to Dr Fluder, of Lymington; Guy's Hospital, London. MB (1845); MD (1851, London)
Career:
Assistant-Accoucheur Physician to Guy's Hospital; Assistant Obstetric Physician, Guy's Hospital (1858); Physician (1868-1883); Obstetric Physician, St Mary's Hospital, London (1888)
Memberships:
MRCS (1851); FLS; MRCP (1859); FRCP (166)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1862
RelationshipsSecond son of Edward Hicks of Lymington, Hampshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA5060
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/8/589Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr John Braxton Hicks, [Fellow of the Royal Society]21 November 1893
NLB/11/875Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Harrison & Sons24 October 1895
NLB/15/370Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Miss Braxton Hicks1 September 1897
NLB/15/42Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Braxton Hicks, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Brackens, Lymington, Hampshire11 June 1897
NLB/15/371Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons1 September 1897
RR/4/133Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'On the homologies of the eye and of its parts in the Invertebrata' by John Braxton Hicks22 October 1861
RR/4/130Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'On certain sensory organs in insects, hitherto undescribed' by John Braxton Hicks9 April 1859
RR/4/132Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the homologies of the eye and of its parts in the Invertebrata' by John Braxton Hicks7 May 1861
EC/1862/07Hicks, John Braxton: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/4/131Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On certain sensory organs in insects, hitherto undescribed' by John Braxton Hicks9 July 1859
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
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