Hicks, (Edward) Seymour (1871–1949)

English actor and theatre manager. He was chief light comedian at the Gaiety Theatre 1894–97. He wrote numerous plays, including Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), The Catch of the Season (1904), and The Man in Dress Clothes (1922). He was knighted in 1935.

He opened the Aldwych Theatre in 1905 and the Hicks Theatre (later the Globe) in 1906. He was at the Coliseum about 1910, the Savoy in 1926, and Daly's in 1934.