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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. As of 2010 the titles are held by the third Viscount's son,
the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 1983. He is a solicitor.
