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William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford, PC, PC (NI), DL (23 June 1865 – 8 June 1932), known as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, from 1919 to 1929 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician. He first attracted attention in 1908 when he defeated Winston Churchill, a Liberal Cabinet ...
Overview. William Joynson-Hicks. (b. 1865) Quick Reference. (b. London, 23 June 1865; d. 8 June 1932) British; Home Secretary 1924–9; Bt. 1919, Viscount Brentford 1929 Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Joynson-Hicks became a successful solicitor.
22 de nov. de 2022 · The book should be withdrawn, he thundered, or else the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, must act to suppress it.
William Joynson-Hicks [popularly known as 'Jix'] (1865-1932; ODNB), MP (C) North-west Manchester, 1908-10, Brentford, 1911-18, Twickenham, 1918-29; junior minister 1922-3; financial secretary, Treasury and then minister of health, 1923; a puritanical and illiberal home secretary, 1924-9; a strong evangelical, member of the Church Assembly, and ...
Abstract. Between 1924 and 1929, a campaign was launched to try crack down on London's nightclubs and nightlife. Seen as symbolic of a new age of moral decline by their detractors, nightclubs were raided, closed, and fined, and revellers harassed by the Metropolitan Police. The campaign was spearheaded by the Conservative Home Secretary ...
29 de mai. de 2013 · The campaign against the nightclubs in the 1920s metropolis, headed by the crusading Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, is well known in popular histories of the inter-war period.1 This woul...
Joynson-Hicks, Cabinet Minister. It is almost axiomatic amongst historians of anti-semitism in England that 'at no point between 1876 and 1939 was there evidence of official governmental anti-semitism in Britain . . .'. Yet in 1924, the Jewish community greeted with alarm and dismay the advent to the Cabinet.
