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Arthur Thornhill
Arthur John
Thornhill
was an
English
Conservative Party
politician
from Diddington
Hall
,
Buckden
, in
Huntingdonshire
.
Hicks
was elected as a
Member of Parliament
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
.
He was nominated as
High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
in
1889
, and nominated again in
1892
after which he was appointed to
the office
in
1893
.