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Hick debated ''Supply – [[British Army|Army]] Estimates'', June 1873 drawing attention to the improvement of [[Artillery|heavy ordnance]].<ref name='obit2'/><ref>{{cite web|title=Supply—Army Estimates |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1873/jun/23/supply-army-estimates#S3V0216P0_18730623_HOC_73|website=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|access-date=13 November 2015|date=23 June 1873}}</ref> As a parliamentarian he was frequently consulted by Government on subjects relating to [[armaments]] and the construction of boilers for [[War vessel|war-vessels]],<ref name='obit3'/> he also served on a Select Committee appointed June 1874 to investigate the testing of [[chain|chain cable]] and [[anchors]] for the [[British navy|Navy]]<ref name='obit3'/><ref name='obit'/><ref name='obit2'/> and as Vice President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers between 1874 and 1876.<ref name='obit2'/>
On taking up residence at [[Little Mitton|Mytton]] Hall in 1874,<ref name=Mitton/><ref name='Aspinall'/> Hick became a [[Magistrate (England and Wales)|Justice of the Peace]] for [[Whalley, Lancashire]],<ref name='obit'/> he was an [[executor]] for the estate of his brother-in-law, [[John Hargreaves (early railway operator)|John Hargreaves]] in March 1875 following his death at [[Silwood Park]], [[Sunninghill, Berkshire|Sunninghill]] 18 December 1874,<ref>{{cite journal |journal=London Gazette |title=John Hargreaves, Esq., Deceased|date=19 November 1875 |issue=5595 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24268/page/5595/data.pdf |access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref> two days after Hick's marriage to Rebecca Ashworth.<ref name='Rebecca'/> [[Widowed]] with eight children,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams-Ellis |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Carrier's Tale: The Hargreaves Family of Bolton & Westhoughton |date=2004 |publisher=C.C.Publishing (Chester) |isbn=0949001236 |page=82}}</ref> Hick's elder sister Mary (1813–1878)<ref name='Benjamin Hick 1790'/><ref name='Mary'>{{cite web|last1=Redfern|first1=Diane|title=Mary Hick|url=http://www.dianeredfern.ca/pafg04.htm#89|website=Diane Redfern Ancestry & Family History|publisher=dianeredfern.ca|access-date=28 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127084538/http://www.dianeredfern.ca/pafg04.htm#89|archive-date=27 November 2015}}</ref> moved to [[Queen's Gate]], [[South Kensington]], but died there just over 3 years later, 4 January 1878.<ref>{{cite web |website=Probate Search Service |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results |title=Hargreaves Margaret |publisher=HM Courts & Tribunals Service|ref=44 |page=103 |date=1878}}</ref> Around this time Hick began to use a summer residence at ''Woodlands'', [[Lezayre]], [[Isle of Man]],<ref name='County 1876'>{{cite book|last1=Walford|first1=Edward|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland |date=1876| location=London | publisher=R. Hardwicke|page=484|url=https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof16walf/page/484/mode/2up |access-date=28 February 2025}}</ref><ref name='Kermode'>{{cite book|last=Kermode, M.A. |first=Canon R. D. |title=The Annals of Kirk Christ Lezayre|date=1954|publisher=The Norris Modern Press Ltd. | location=Victoria Street, Douglas |url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/ker1954/ch14.htm |access-date=2 December 2015|chapter=XIV – St. Stephen's, Sulby}}</ref><ref name='Rebecca2'/> where he also became a [[Magistrate (England and Wales)|Justice of the Peace]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Walford|first1=Edward|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland |date=1919| location=London | publisher=R. Hardwicke|page=654|url=https://archive.org/stream/countyfamiliesof591919walf#page/654/mode/2up |access-date=2 December 2015}}</ref>
On 15 March 1879, towards the end of his time as an [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]], John Hick with J. Turay and [[Charles Denton Abel]] of 20 Southamptom Buildings, an address associated with [[Abel & Imray]], Lt Colonel [[Francis Bolton]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Aqueous Works and Diamond Rock Boring Co |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Aqueous_Works_and_Diamond_Rock_Boring_Co |website=Grace's Guide |publisher=Grace's Guide Ltd |access-date=18 February 2025 |date=12 December 2024}}</ref> Colonel [[Frederick Beaumont]], [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] MP for [[South Durham]] 1868–1880, [[Alexander Brogden]] [[Magistrate (England and Wales)|JP]] of [[John Brogden and Sons]], Liberal MP 1868–1885 for [[Wednesbury]] and J.T. Jones registered the Aqueous Works and [[Exploration diamond drilling|Diamond Rock-boring]] Company (Limited), Crown Works, Guildford Street, [[York Road, Lambeth|York Road]], [[Lambeth]]. A short walk over [[Westminster Bridge]] from [[St Stephen's Club]] and the [[Houses of Parliament]],<ref>{{cite web |title=London (Edition of 1894-96) LXVII, Revised: 1893 to 1894, Published: 1897 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=51.50095&lon=-0.12216&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=96 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> the company with £300,000 [[Capital (economics)|capital]] in £5 [[shares]] "...bought out and patented the system of using [[diamonds]] for boring".<ref>{{Citation|title=The Mining journal, railway and commercial gazette: forming a complete record of the proceedings of all public companies|date=15 March 1879|publisher=H. English|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19188816|access-date=13 November 2015|page=252}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Artesian Wells |url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:1891_KentSurreySussex4_i0793.png|website=Graces's Guide|publisher=Grace's Guide|access-date=13 November 2015|page=24|date=1890}}</ref>
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