Viscount Brentford, of Newick in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1929 for the Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician Sir William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Baronet

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford PC, PC , DL , known as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, from 1919 to 1929 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician, best known as a long-serving and controversial Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929, during which...

, chiefly remembered for his tenure as Home Secretary

Home Secretary

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 from 1924 to 1929. He had already been created a Baronet, of Holmsbury, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, on 20 September 1919. His younger son, the third Viscount, was also a Conservative politician. On 29 January 1956, two years before he succeeded his elder brother in the viscountcy, he was created a Baronet, of Newick. the titles are held by the third Viscount's son, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 1983. He is a solicitor.

The family seat is Cousley Place, near Wadhurst

Wadhurst

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, Sussex

Sussex

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Viscounts Brentford (1929)

• William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
  William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
  William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford PC, PC , DL , known as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, from 1919 to 1929 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician, best known as a long-serving and controversial Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929, during which...
  
   (1865–1932)
• Richard Cecil Joynson-Hicks, 2nd Viscount Brentford (1896–1958) Buried: Donkerhoek Cemetery, Rustenburg, North West Province, South Africa. Grave Number: 526.
• Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford
  Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford
  Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford , known as Sir Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Baronet from 1956 to 1958, was an English Conservative politician....
  
   (1902–1983)
• Crispin William Joynson-Hicks, 4th Viscount Brentford (b. 1933)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Paul William Joynson-Hicks (b. 1971)