Biography of Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden -1629

Paternal Family Tree: Hicks

In or before 1557 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden was born to Robert Hicks (age 38).

In 1557 [his father] Robert Hicks (age 39) died.

In 1568 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 11) was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University [Map].

In 1573 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 16) admitted at Inner Temple.

In 1585 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 28) and Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden (age 23) were married.

In Jul 1586 [his daughter] Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden was born to Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 29) and [his wife] Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden (age 24).

Coronation of James I

On 23 Jul 1603 King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 37) created a number Knights at the Royal Gardens Whitehall Palace:

Henry Savile 1st Baronet (age 24), William Morgan (age 43), George Carew, Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 46), Richard Musgrave 1st Baronet (age 18), James Calthorpe (age 44), Thomas Gresham (age 56), George Fane of Burston (age 22), Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland (age 23), Robert Chichester (age 25), William Pope 1st Earl Downe (age 29), Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet (age 15), Thomas Berkeley (age 28), Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu (age 40), William Herbert 1st Baron Powis (age 30), Anthony Irby (age 26), Drue Drury of Eccles and Rollesby in Norfolk and Arnold Lygon (age 45).

24 Jul 1603 Richard Browne Clerk (age 64).

On 20 Dec 1605 [his son-in-law] Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden (age 23) and [his daughter] Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden (age 19) were married.

On 04 Dec 1606 [his son-in-law] Charles Morrison (age 19) and [his daughter] Mary Hicks Lady Cooper were married at Low Leyton.

On 01 Jul 1620 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 63) was created 1st Baronet Hicks of Campden in Gloucestershire. [his wife] Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden (age 58) by marriage Lady Hicks of Campden in Gloucestershire.

In 1621 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 64) was elected MP Tavistock.

In 1624 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 67) was elected MP Tewkesbury.

In 1625 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 68) was elected MP Tewkesbury.

In 1625 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 68) was appointed Justice of the Peace Gloucestershire.

On 23 Mar 1625 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 68) was appointed Deputy Lieutenant Middlesex.

In 1626 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 69) was elected MP Tewkesbury.

In 1628 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 71) was elected MP Tewkesbury.

On 05 May 1628 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 71) was created 1st Viscount Campden, 1st Baron Hicks of Ilmington in Warwickshire with a special remainder, failing his issue male, to his daughter [his daughter] Juliana's (age 41) husband [his son-in-law] Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden (age 46). [his wife] Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden (age 66) by marriage Viscountess Campden.

After 20 Jul 1628 [his son-in-law] John Cooper 1st Baronet (age 30) and [his daughter] Mary Hicks Lady Cooper were married. She by marriage Lady Cooper of Rockbourne in Southampton.

On 18 Oct 1629 Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden (age 72) died. His son-in-law [his son-in-law] Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden (age 47) succeeded 2nd Viscount Campden, 2nd Baron Hicks of Ilmington in Warwickshire. Baronet Hicks of Campden in Gloucestershire extinct. [his daughter] Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden (age 43) by marriage Viscountess Campden.

On 21 Jul 1643 [his former wife] Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden (age 81) died.

After 21 Jul 1643. Monument at St James' Church, Chipping Campden [Map] to Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden and [his former wife] Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden (deceased).

Monument in St James' Church, Chipping Campden [Map]. A sumptuous marble canopied and colonaded. Possibly by Nicholas Stone (age 56).

[his daughter] Mary Hicks Lady Cooper was born to Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden and Elizabeth May Viscountess Campden.

Royal Descendants of Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden -1629

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom x 2

Diana Spencer Princess Wales x 3

Ancestors of Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden -1629

GrandFather: John Hicks

Father: Robert Hicks

Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden