3-039-193 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Vice-Chancellor Wickens, 1871. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. 'The learned gentleman who has lately taken his seat on the Vice-Chancellor's bench, made vacant by the resignation of Sir John Stuart, is Mr. John Wickens. He is the second son of the late Mr. James Stephens Wickens, of London, by Ann Goodenough, daughter of Mr. John Hayter, of Winterborne Stoke, Wiltshire, and sister of the Right Hon. Sir William Goodenough Hayter, Bart. He was born in the year 1815, and was educated at Eton, and at Baliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a scholarship in 1833, and took his bachelor's degree, obtaining a first class in classical honours in Michaelmas Term, 1836. He proceeded to M.A. in due course, and was called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1840. In 1868 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the county palatine of Lancaster, in succession to Sir William Milbourne James, on the elevation of the latter to a Vice-Chancellorship. Mr. Wickens married, in 1845, Harriet Frances, daughter of Mr. William Davey, of Cowley House, Gloucestershire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.