LORD BRENTFORD’S DEATH

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1932, Page 7

LORD BRENTFORD’S DEATH

FORMERLY SIR W. JOYNSON HICKS.

NOTABLE BRITISH FIGURE.

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.

London, June 8.

The death has occurred of Lord Brentford. As Sir William Joynson Hicks Lord Brentford was Home Secretary in the last Conservative Government, He died as a result of congestion of the lungs in his London home. He was a devout churchman and took a keen interest in philanthropic and social work.

Lord Brentford was created an carl in 1929. He was born in Kent in 1865 and assumed the name of Joynson on his marriage in 1895. He was elected as a Conservative member to the House ol Commons in 1908, representing Northwest Manchester and later Brentford, 1911-1918, and Twickenham 1918-192'J., He was Parliamentary Secretary of Overseas Trade, 1922-23; Postmaster-General, 1923; Financial Secretary to the Treasury with a sent in the Cabinet, 1923; Minister of Health, 1923-1924; Homo Secretary, 1924-1929. In 1929 Lord Brentford was appointed chairman of the Parliamentary Air Committee. He was keenly interested in road and air transport and served on many committees and commissions, and was for 15 years chairman of the Automobile Association and Motor Union of Great Britain and Ireland. , Lord Brentford was Home Secretary in 1926, when the famous raid was made on Arcos, the Soviet Trading Company’s headquarters in London. This came as a sequel, after a great deal of controversy, to the notorious Zinovieff letter produced on the eve of the general election in 19*24. Lord Brentford issued orders for the raid on Arcos, the results, of which, it was alleged, did not come up to expectations. Lord Brentford took a prominent part in the Prayer Book crisis in 1928. He had been president of the National Church League and warmly opposed the amendments proposed by the High Church Party.