Frederick Brook Hitch was born in Lambeth, London, England on 7 November 1877 and was the son of the sculptor Nathaniel Hitch (1845-1938). He received his initial art training with his father before studying at the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1902 to 1907. In 1902 he was awarded a 2nd prize for a model of a design, and a 2nd prize for a model of statue or group; and in 1904, he won a 2nd prize for a set of four models of a figure from the life.
He subsequently worked as a sculptor. His output consisted primarily of memorial statues, reliefs and plaques; and statuettes. He also produced at least one medal - a medal to commemorate the victory of Jutland Bank in 1917.
He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy in London from 1906 and 1947. He also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at the Royal Cambrian Academy in Conwy, Wales.
Notable among his commissions were public monuments of Captain Matthew Flinders, (1934) and Sir Ross Smith (1927) for Adelaide, South Australia; relief plaques in bronze for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) Memorial Dispensary in Kilburn, London (1930s); reliefs for the façade of the Main Building of Cardiff University (formerly University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire) in Cathays Park, Cardiff; carvings for St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales; a statue of hymn writer, Charles Wesley for Wesley’s New Room, in Horse Fair, Bristol; and a statue of Admiral Lord Nelson for Portsmouth, Hampshire (1951).
Following World War One, Hitch was commissioned to design a number of war memorials. These included the Harwich Royal Navy Reserve Auxiliary Patrol and Minesweepers Memorial in Harwich, Essex (1919); with the architect Cecil Greenwood Hare (1875-1932), at the Church of St Alban, Tilford Road, Beacon Hill, Hindhead (1919); at St Mary the Virgin Church in Shotley, Suffolk (1919); at St Michael and All Angels Church in Pirbright, Surrey (1920); and with the architect Arthur Heron Ryan Tenison (1861-1930), the National Submarine War Memorial on Victoria Embankment, London (1922). Hitch was elected an Associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy (ARCA) in 1908; a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (RBS) in 1908); a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1909; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS) in 1938. He was also a member of the Chelsea Arts Club.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register, Hitch gave as his occupation Building Contractor, however, he was still working as a sculptor and continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy for eight years after this date.
Hitch lived in Lambeth London until the 1900s when he moved to Ware in Hertfordshire. His address was given as 1 Musley Villas Road, Ware, Hertfordshire in 1911; and 20 Highfield Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1939 and 1957. He died in Hertford, Hertfordshire on 30 April 1957.
