Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscount Brentford
Office:Member of Parliament
for Chichester
Term Start3:25 May 1942
Term End3:27 June 1958
Predecessor3:John Courtauld
Successor3:Walter Loveys
Birth Name:Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks
Birth Date:10 April 1902
Birth Place:London, England
Death Place:East Sussex, England
Party:Conservative
Children:Crispin
Allegiance:United Kingdom

Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford (10 April 1902  - 25 February 1983), known as Sir Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, Bt from 1942 to 1958, was a British Conservative politician and solicitor. He was the Member of Parliament for Chichester from 1942 to 1958, when he became 3rd Viscount and was elevated to the House of Lords.

Background and education

Joynson-Hicks was born in Marylebone, London,[1] the second son of former Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford and Grace Lynn Joynson. He was educated at Sandroyd School then Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford.[2]

Political career

Joynson-Hicks later became a solicitor and a farmer. He served in the Second World War as a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve.[2] He sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester from 1942 to 1958 and served under Winston Churchill as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power from 1951 to 1955. In 1956 he was created a Baronet, of Newick in the County of Sussex. On the death of his older brother, Richard Joynson-Hicks, 2nd Viscount Brentford, in 1958, he succeeded as Viscount Brentford. As a peer he was disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons, and a by-election was triggered.[2]

Lord Brentford was also Chairman of the Automobile Association and served as a member of the House of Laity in the National Assembly of the Church of England. He continued to work as a solicitor in his later years, though his work came under scrutiny in the 1970s, when he and Reginald Maudling were associated with the failure of the Real Estate Fund of America.[2]

Family

Lord Brentford married Phyllis Allfey (d. 1979), daughter of Herbert Cyril Allfey, in 1931.[2] He died in the Lewes District of East Sussex on 20 February 1983, aged 80, and was succeeded in his titles by his only child Crispin.[3] [2]

Arms

Escutcheon:Gules on a fess wavy between three fleurs-de-lis Or a portcullis Sable all within a bordure of the second.
Crest:A stag’s head Proper gorged with a collar Or thereon five roses Gules and charged in the neck with a fleur-de-lis Gold.
Supporters:On either side a stag Proper gorged with a collar Or thereon five roses Gules and charged on the neck with a fleur-de-lis Gold.
Motto:Cassis Tutissima Virtus [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Index entry. 1 November 2023. FreeBMD. ONS.
  2. News: Viscount Brentford. 2 March 1983. The Times. 14.
  3. Web site: Index entry. 1 November 2023. FreeBMD. ONS.
  4. Book: Burke's Peerage . 1939.