page_title: Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden
section_title: Personal life, death, and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden / Personal life, death, and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: St James's church, Chipping Campden: Hicks monument. The sumptuous canopied tomb-chest of local benefactor Sir Baptist Hicks, Lord Campden (†1629), whose recumbent effigy in state robes lies alongside that of his wife Elizabeth May. The tomb canopy is supported by 12 columns of Egyptian marble. Knighted in 1603, and created a baronet in 1620, Baptist Hicks was a wealthy mercer who had access to the court through the influence of his brother Michael, who was a secretary to Lord Burghley, and a confidant of Robert Cecil. During his lifetime Hicks made a number of benefactions to the town of Campden that included the Almshouses, and the Market Hall, as well as a number of gifts to the church.
context_page_description: Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden was an English 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.
  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, with remainder to his son-in-law Edward Noel, husband of his daughter Juliana.
context_section_description: Hicks married Elizabeth May in 1585. She was the daughter of Richard May of London and Sussex, and sister of Sir Humphrey May, Alderman of London.
  His elder daughter Juliana married Edward Lord Noel, who became 2nd Viscount Campden.
  His younger daughter Mary married:
  Sir Charles Morrison, 1st Baronet of Cashiobury,
  Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet,
  Sir Edward Alford.
  Hicks died at the age of 78 and is buried under a classical monument in Chipping Campden St James church.
  His will left £10,000 for charitable purposes; the funds helped to establish
  Campden Charities, a non-profit organization to alleviate poverty in Kensington.
  All that now remains of Sir Baptist Hicks' once imposing estate are a gatehouse and two Jacobean banqueting houses; the latter of which were restored by the Landmark Trust. Afterwards, Lady Juliana Noel, Sir Baptist's daughter, her husband Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden, and family lived at the converted stables near the site in Calf Lane, now called the Court House. Her descendant still lives in that Grade II listed building.
caption: The Hicks memorial in St James church
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