Word: joynson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber adjoining His Majesty's bedroom, and the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir William Joynson-Hicks took up his stance in the doorway, facing the Royal bed. Thus the King-Emperor "sat" or rather lay as Chairman of the Privy Council with as little excitement as possible. Slightly rolling over in bed George V listened while Sir William read the Order in Council. Full text...
...Majesty also was pleased by and with the advice of his Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, that Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Baronet, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries, do cause a warrant to be prepared for His Majesty's royal signature for passing under the Great Seal of the Realm a commission conformable to the said draft which is hereunto annexed...
Code radio flashes from London to the plunging, speeding Enterprise told David of Windsor more than any correspondent knew about George V's condition. In England censorship of the official medical bulletins by Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks grew so drastic that prominent folk even tried to pry the truth out of Sir William's son Lancelot, previously a pallid nonentity. One day after chatting with his tall, correct, frock-coated father, Lancelot Joynson-Hicks said positively: "There is no doubt that the King is on the mend...
...Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, rubicund, jovial and a smart vote getter (see col. 3). The prize litter was called by scurrilous correspondents "Jix's Pride." That is to say, the squealing piglets belong to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home affairs, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, tall, pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated; but by no means heedless of the ballot pulling power of pigs. Mr. Churchill's piggery is at Westerham; and Sir William's nestles on his Sussex estate, Newick Park. Both are scorned as mere "gentlemen's pig pens...
Then you drop this footnote: "Supposing that the legal limit were six children and supposing that twins should be born to Their Majesties, who already have five children, then the position of Sir William Joynson-Hicks would be that of his hypothetical nurse...