The Viscount Brentford | |
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| Home Secretary | |
| In office 7 November 1924 – 5 June 1929 | |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Arthur Henderson |
| Succeeded by | J. R. Clynes |
| Minister of Health | |
| In office 27 August 1923 – 22 January 1924 | |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Neville Chamberlain |
| Succeeded by | John Wheatley |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Office in Cabinet) | |
| In office 25 May 1923 – 27 August 1923 | |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Archibald Boyd-Carpenter |
| Succeeded by | Walter Guinness (from 5 October 1923) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | William Hicks 23 June 1865 Plaistow Hall, Kent |
| Died | 8 June 1932 (aged 66) London |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Grace Lynn Joynson (d. 1952) |
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 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician.
He first attracted attention in 1908 when he defeated Winston Churchill, a Liberal Cabinet Minister at the time, in a by-election for the seat of North-West Manchester but is best known as a long-serving and controversial Home Secretary in Stanley Baldwin's Second Government from 1924 to 1929. He gained a reputation for pious authoritarianism, opposing Communism and clamping down on nightclubs and what he saw as indecent literature. He also played an important role in the fight against the introduction of the Church of England Revised Prayer Book, and in lowering the voting age for women from 30 to 21.