Word: brentford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced last week were the customary "dissolution honors," bestowed by King George at the request of the outgoing Conservative ministry. Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, fussy Home Secretary in the Baldwin Cabinet, whose battles against Prayer Book revision and sex novels have made him a national caricature, became Viscount Brentford. Viscount Peel (Rt. Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel), onetime Secretary of State for India, was gazetted an earl...
Thomas Felton, priest; Brentford...