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Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford

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The Right Honourable
The Viscount Brentford
Member of Parliament
for Chichester
In office
25 May 1942 – 27 June 1958
Preceded byJohn Courtauld
Succeeded byWalter Loveys
Personal details
Born
Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks

(1902-04-10)10 April 1902
London, England
Died25 February 1983(1983-02-25) (aged 80)
East Sussex, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Phyllis Allfey
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(m. 1931; died 1979)​
ChildrenCrispin
Alma materSandroyd School
Winchester College
Trinity College, Oxford
Military service
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch/serviceRoyal Naval Reserve
RankLieutenant-commander
Battles/warsSecond World War

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

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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

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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[3] 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

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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.[4][2]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford
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.
Escutcheon
Gules on a fess wavy between three fleurs-de-lis Or a portcullis Sable all within a bordure of the second.
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 [5]

References

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  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Viscount Brentford". The Times. 2 March 1983. p. 14.
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
  4. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  5. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1939.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Chichester
1942 – 1958 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power
1951–1955 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Newick)
1956–1983 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Brentford
1958–1983 		Succeeded by
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