Robert Drew Hicks

Robert Drew Hicks (29 June 1850 – 8 March 1929^[1]) was a classical scholar, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The son of William Hicks, head clerk in the post office at Bristol,^[2] Hicks was born in 1850, was educated at Bristol Grammar School,^[3] and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1868.^[4] Graduating BA in 1874, he became a fellow of Trinity in 1876.^[5] He was college lecturer in Classics from 1884 to 1900.^[3] He married Bertha Mary Heath in 1896, who herself held an MA in Classics from the University of London.^[4] His brother-in-law was Sir Thomas Heath.^[3] Between 1898 and 1900 Robert Hicks became blind, but he nevertheless produced most of his major works after this time, aided by his wife.^[4] He died at his home, Fossedene, at Mount Pleasant, Cambridge,^[2] is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Works

Hicks's writings include:^[3]

• a monumental edition of Aristotle's "De Anima" (1907)
• a small volume on the Stoics and Epicureans (1910)
• a summary of Greek philosophy for the Cambridge Companion to Greek Studies
• a concise Latin dictionary in Braille (1921)
• his text and translation of Diogenes Laërtius for the Loeb Classical Library (1925)