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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...
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    Brentford (1896–1958) Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford (1902–1983) Crispin William Joynson-Hicks, 4th Viscount Brentford (b. 1933) The heir...
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    Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford (10 April 1902 – 25 February 1983), known as Sir Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, Bt from 1942 to...
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    Birmingham and a Cabinet minister. His mother was Florence Kenrick, a cousin of William Kenrick MP; she died when he was a small boy. Joseph Chamberlain had had...
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  • mathematician and physicist William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford (1865–1932), British politician nicknamed Jix William Woodbury Hicks (1896–1966), American...
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    the Middle East Theatre. Command of the Eighth Army was given to General William Gott but he was shot down and killed while flying to Cairo only three days...
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  • of talent" – to the ideological affinity between Baldwin and Joynson-Hicks. Joynson-Hick's appointment worried the Jewish community, and not without reasons:...
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    as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir William Joynson-Hicks succeeded Chamberlain as Minister of Health. Joynson-Hicks' successor as Financial Secretary to...
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    developing his left-wing political outlook. Reciting long passages by William Morris with the help of an elocution tutor, Bevan gradually began to overcome...
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  • J. C. Ryle, J. T. Tomlinson, W. H. Griffith-Thomas, Henry Wace, William Joynson-Hicks (Home Secretary), Geoffrey Bromiley, Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, J...
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    the Home Office (17 February 1925), serving under Home Secretary William Joynson Hicks. In July 1925, Eden went on a second trip to Canada, Australia and...
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    "hunger for sensation, disaster, and scandal".: 224  Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks pressured police, and a newspaper offered a £100 reward (equivalent...
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    George V Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Preceded by Sir William Joynson-Hicks Succeeded by William Graham Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War...
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    Baldwin as Chancellor of the Exchequer. William Joynson-Hicks succeeded Chamberlain as Minister of Health. Joynson-Hicks' successor as Financial Secretary to...
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    Birmingham Ladywood 7 March 1923 27 August 1923 Conservative Baldwin I William Joynson-Hicks MP for Twickenham 27 August 1923 22 January 1924 Conservative John...
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  • Earl of Shaftesbury (1869–1961) John Rawlinson (1860–1926) Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt (1865–1932) Montagu Norman (1871–1950) George Gibbs (1873–1931)...
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    Election Member 1918 William Joynson-Hicks Unionist 1929 by-election John Ferguson Unionist 1932 by-election Hylton Murray-Philipson Conservative 1934...
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    events through the 1920s, including Austen Chamberlain in 1921, Sir William Joynson-Hicks in 1923, and Diana Churchill in 1928. The Primrose League was formed...
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    with her. Churchill lost the election to Conservative candidate William Joynson-Hicks, in part as a result of the suffragists' dedicated opposition. In...
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    sensual ideals of a crowd of vulgar men." The Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was among those opposing the match, claiming "the Legislature never...
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    of Lancashire County Council. Following a campaign supported by William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary and Member of Parliament (MP) for a neighbouring...
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    Lexicon to Herodotus, published by Cambridge University Press the same year. William Lorimer reviewed the lexicon in the Classical Review and praised Powell's...
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  • President of the Board of Trade. The Conservatives retained 43-year-old William Joynson-Hicks as their candidate. This was his third election to parliament, having...
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    who had called for The Well's suppression, and the Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks, who had started legal proceedings, it also mocked Hall and her...
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    J. E. B. Seely (1927) Sir William Joynson-Hicks (1927) Frank J. Privett (1928) Sir Harold R. Pink (1928) Admiral Sir William James (1942) Field Marshal...
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    1990s. He has named his personal political heroes as Margaret Thatcher and William Wilberforce. Hunt is a member of the Church of England. Hunt has advocated...
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    Addison Alfred Mond Arthur Griffith-Boscawen Neville Chamberlain William Joynson-Hicks John Wheatley Neville Chamberlain Arthur Greenwood Neville Chamberlain...
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  • Gertrude Ederle Billy Reid as Pub Landlord Tim Loughton as Sir William Joynson-Hicks It was announced in 2018 that Hasler was writing a screenplay based...
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  • targeted by the Home Secretary, William Joynson-Hicks, who instructed the head of London’s Metropolitan Police, William Horwood that ‘it is a place of...
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  • his time in Parliament, in 1925, he challenged the Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks about his treatment of the Jewish community, alleging that Jewish...
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