| Biography | 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, best known as a long-serving and controversial Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929, during which he gained a reputation for strict authoritarianism. |