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Robert Hicks (British politician)

British politician (1938- )

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7345495 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sir Robert Adrian Hicks (born 18 January 1938) is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Hicks unsuccessfully contested Aberavon in 1966. He was member of parliament for Bodmin from 1970 to February 1974 (when the seat was temporarily gained by the Liberals) and from October 1974 to 1983. Following boundary changes, he was MP for South East Cornwall from 1983 until he stood down in 1997.

In 1999, he announced his support for the Pro Euro Conservative Party.

References

Times Guide to the House of Commons, Times Newspapers Limited, October 1974 and 1992 editions.

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“Robert Hicks (British politician)” enters the record as british politician (1938- ). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robert, Hicks and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1966, 1970, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Robert, Hicks and British.
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“Robert Hicks (British politician)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Robert, Hicks and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7345495. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1966, 1970 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Hicks (British politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.