Gillian Joynson-Hicks
Gillian Evelyn Joynson-Hicks (nee Schluter) is the Viscountess Brentford. She is a patron of the moral conservative advocacy group the Family Education Trust (formerly Family and Youth Concern).[1]
According to the Telegraph, Joynson-Hicks was 'a close friend of Dr Carey and his wife Eileen, she is said to have enormous influence with the Archbishop... Lady Brentford often arrives at meetings in the Archbishop's car.'[2]
According to the Daily Mail's Ephraim Hardcastle column Joynson-Hicks was given a 'grace and favour cottage at Lambeth Palace she has enjoyed since Dr Carey moved out his gardener to make way for her.' The paper also notes that Joynson-Hicks was at that stage 'on the Crown Appointments Commission considering Dr Carey's successor.'[3]
The Telegraph describes her as: 'One of the Great and Good, and with links to Holy Trinity, Brompton, the high temple of fashionable evangelical worship, Lady Brentford is said by some to be "Carey's fixer".'[2]
Joynson-Hicks has also been 'president of the evangelical Church Mission Society.' She is a 'chartered accountant by profession'.[2]
