Hicks Withers-Lancashire [SEP] date of birth
Hicks Withers-Lancashire
Hicks Withers-Lancashire (1829 – 30 January 1909), also known as Hicks Withers, was a British veterinary surgeon.
He was born in Ham Green in Somerset to Samuel Withers, a veterinary surgeon, and Martha Lancashire.
Hicks joined the army as a vet with the Royal Horse Artillery. He was involved in the Crimean War and was present at the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Alma, Sebastapol, Balaklava and Inkerman. Later, in the Indian Rebellion of 1857,
One of the UK's most exclusive clubs, described by Country Life as the dream of every fly-fisher, with exclusive fishing rights over 13 miles of prime trout breeding and fishing waters, the Houghton Fishing Club founded in 1822, for many years met socially at The Grosvenor Hotel, a current landmark by its jutting out into the pavement.
Stockbridge has the Non-League football club Stockbridge F.C., which plays at The Recreation Ground.
Famous residents.
- Hicks Withers-Lancashire was Lord of the Manor