Viscount Brentford

Viscount Brentford, of Newick in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the Conservative politician Sir William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Baronet, chiefly remembered for his tenure as Home Secretary 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. Between 1983 to 2010 the title was held by the fourth Viscount, a solicitor and former president of the Church Society . As of 2022 the titles are held by the son of the fourth Viscount, a wildlife photographer in Tanzania.

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford

The family seat is Cousley Place, near Wadhurst, East Sussex.

Viscounts Brentford (1929)

The heir apparent is the present holder's elder son the Hon. Sam Harling Joynson-Hicks (born 2010). [1]

Arms
Coat of arms of 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 [2]

References
  1. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019
  2. Burke's Peerage. 1939.
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
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