Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden
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Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden (1551 – 18 October 1629) was an English cloth merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1628. King James I knighted Hicks in 1603 and in 1620 he was created a baronet.
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Born | 1551 |
Died | 18 October 1629 |
Occupation(s) | Merchant, politician |
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Relatives | Michael Hicks (brother) |
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He was MP for Tavistock in the House of Commons of 1621 and for Tewkesbury in the parliaments of 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628. In 1628, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Hicks, of Ilmington in the County of Warwick, and Viscount Campden, of Campden in the County of Gloucester,[1] with remainder to his son-in-law, Edward Noel, husband of his daughter Juliana.[2]