Wickham (disambiguation)

Wickham (disambiguation)

Wickham may refer to:

In places:

* Wickham, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
* Wickham, Western Australia, a town in Western Australia
* Wickham, Hampshire, England, a small market town
* Wickham, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England
* Cape Wickham, a cape and lighthouse in Tasmania

In people:

* John Clements Wickham (1798–1864), Australian naval officer on Darwin's "HMS Beagle", judge in Queensland
* Geoffrey Wickham (born 1933), Australian pioneer of cardiac pacemaking, co-founder of Telectronics
* Christopher Wickham (born 1950), Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford
* Tracey Wickham (born 1962), Australian swimmer
* Madeleine Wickham (born 1969), British bestselling author of chick lit as Sophie Kinsella

In fictional characters:

* Bobbie Wickham, redhead female in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
* George Wickham, principal villain in Jane Austen's 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice"

See also

* Whickham, Tyne and Wear, England
* Davison v. Von Lingen, United States Supreme Court case regarding the steamship "Whickham"
* Wickham & Co, manufacturers of locomotives and carriages


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