T. E. Hickman

Brigadier-General Thomas Edgecumbe Hickman, CB, DSO (25 July 1859 – 23 October 1930) was a British Army officer and Conservative Party politician.

Early life and career Hickman was one of sixteen children of Sir Alfred Hickman, industrialist and member of parliament for Wolverhampton West and Order of the Medjidie (fourth class) by the Khedive of Egypt, and made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). During these years he was promoted to captain on 25 July 1888, received a brevet appointment as major on 18 November 1896, a brevet appointment as lieutenant colonel on 16 November 1898, the substantive promotion to the rank of major on 14 February 1900, and the brevet appointment as colonel on 14 March 1900. That year he transferred to South Africa to serve in the Second Boer War, which had started in October 1899. He was appointed a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (Military Division) in April 1901.

Following the end of the war in June 1902, he stayed on in South Africa as Colonel on the Staff for the Eastern sub district in the Cape Colony district command. He remained in South Africa until 1908.