Arthur John Thornhill (3 April 1850 – 4 June 1930) was an English Conservative Party politician from Diddington Hall, Buckden, in Huntingdonshire.
Hicks was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire at a by-election in March 1884 following the elevation to the peerage of Henry Brand. He held the seat until the constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.[1]
He was nominated as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1889,[2] and nominated again in 1892[3] after which he was appointed to the office in 1893.
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