appointed by the Treasury to investigate the forming of a Science Museum and National Gallery of Portraits in South Kensington, situated between the Natural History Museum and what was to be the Imperial Institute. Death Hick died at the age of 78 after some months of failing health when living at Mytton Hall, Whalley, Lancashire and Lezayre, Isle of Man, where he was also a Justice of the Peace. Like his father Benjamin, John Hick accumulated a large and valuable collection of art works, some of which was inherited, others purchased from the auction of Benjamin Hick's estate in 1843, and devoted his final years at Mytton Hall to compiling an elaborately illustrated catalogue of the collection; some of these works were auctioned by Christie's during June and July 1909 following Rebecca Hick's death in 1908. The Hick library at Mytton Hall was dispersed at Capes Dunne & Co. Manchester in November 1909. From the year of his death the London North Western Railway (LNWR) produced 10 steam locomotives of the John Hick Class (1894–1912); a Francis Webb design of 2-2-2-2 configuration, engine No. 20 named John Hick. The following 9 engines were named after engineers and inventors, principally from the industrial and Second industrial revolution: No. 1505 Richard Arkwright, No. 1512 Henry Cort, No. 1534 William Froude, No. 1535 Henry Maudslay, No. 1536 Hugh Myddelton, No. 1548 John Penn, No. 1549 John Rennie, No. 1557 Thomas Savery and No. 1559 William Siemens. Hick was unique in that he was the only LNWR director to have a locomotive class named after him in memoriam. Following withdrawal of the John Hick Class in 1912, during the month of the anniversary of Hick's death, February 1913, 5 of 6 names were transferred to the LNWR George the Fifth Class, locomotive No. 752 named John Hick, serving up to 1935 with the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). See also George Forrester and Company Johann Georg Bodmer Gerasim Ivanovich Khludov References External links Science Museum Diagrammatic model in wood of Hick's rotary engine, 1843. Institute of Mechanical Engineers Model high pressure two-cylinder horizontal Hick saw-mill engine c.1845, built by John Hick. Science Museum Studio portrait photograph of John Hick by Maull and Polyblank, c.1860. Hansard 1803–2005 Contributions to Parliament by John Hick. 1815 births 1894 deaths People from Bolton People educated at Bolton School Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton British art