Ratcliffe Hicks

Ratcliffe Hicks
Portrait drawing (c.1896)
Born(1843-10-03)October 3, 1843
Tolland, Connecticut, USA
DiedSeptember 19, 1906(1906-09-19) (aged 62)
Interlaken, Switzerland
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
Occupation(s)Industrialist, State Legislator
Known forPublic service in the Connecticut General Assembly
Benefactor of the University of Connecticut and Tolland
Political partyDemocratic Party

Ratcliffe Hicks (1843–1906) was an American lawyer, industrialist, state legislator, and philanthropist from Tolland, Connecticut. The family home is now the Hicks-Stearns Family Museum. The Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture at the University of Connecticut and the Hicks Memorial Municipal Center and Library in Tolland are named after him.