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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 de 2022 · The book should be withdrawn, he thundered, or else the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, must act to suppress it.
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...
- Heather Shore
- 2013
29 de dez. de 2021 · It's also where the Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks hurried, as it was then still protocol that the home secretary was present for such a royal birth. He was considered such an...
Lord Brentford, who as Sir William Joynson-Hicks was Home Secretary in the Baldwin Government, died to-day at the age of 67.
