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Britain's elderly Home Secretary, fusty Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, was doing his godmotherly duty. As the law required, he was standing by at the birth of a royal princeling to see that it was the genuine article. In days of yore he would have been in the bedroom, but this was 1926: Sir William waited decently outside with the nervous father, His Royal Highness, the Duke of York. Presently a small pink bundle was brought to them. Sir William peered. The bundle, third in line of succession to a royal throne, yawned magnificently. Satisfied of the infant...
...looked as though he were about to stage a great comeback. Attempting another John Bull he started John Blunt, which gained an immediate circulation of 500,000 by promising disclosures of hideous tortures in British jails. The campaign and circulation faded together when stiff-necked Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks proved that the hideous conditions in British jails consisted in the inability of Horatio Bottomley to obtain his Pommery 1906 and other special privileges. Six dull years of neglect and increasing poverty were followed by sickness, the application for an old-age pension (a bill that Horatio Bottomley...
Died. William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Lord Brentford, 66, British statesman, Stanley Baldwin's Secretary for Home Affairs (1924-29); of heart disease and lung congestion developed from a cold caught on a West Indian cruise; in London. Abandoning law in favor of politics, Lord Brentford first gained fame by defeating Winston Churchill for a Parliament seat in 1906. A stanch Conservative, he first obtained office in Bonar Law's 1922 cabinet, was made Home Secretary two years later, successfully handled the coal strike and the general strike...
Viscount Brentford, famed as Sir William ("Jix'') Joynson-Hicks during his Mrs. Grundyish term as Home Secretary (1924-29). with emotion...
...Commons and had perforce to become a peer because the English Parliamentary system demands that a Cabinet Minister sit in one House or the other. Also 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...