George Walter Hickman
1840–1919
Solicitor and dog breeder. Practised law in Solihull, Warwickshire. Wrote on the history of the Irish deer-hound.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
Census returns of England and Wales 1891 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG12/2461/84/22)
Dalziel 1889
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 October 2017)
Livestock Journal, 18 March 1881
Watson 1906, plate opposite p. 612.
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