Gillian Joynson-Hicks
Gillian Evelyn Joynson-Hicks (nee Schluter), Viscountess Brentford, is an evangelical activist. 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 and her husband Viscount Brentford are on the evangelical wing of the church and opposed the ordination of the openly gay canon, Dr Jeffrey John, as Bishop of Reading. According to The Times:
- Significantly, the Church Society, which has led opposition to Dr John and Dr Williams, is headed by Viscount Brentford, an evangelical layman.
- His wife, Lady Brentford, was one of the evangelicals on the Archbishops' Council inherited by Dr Williams from his predecessor, Dr George Carey. She handed over to the former newspaper editor Andreas Whittam Smith, First Church Estates Commissioner, when she retired last month.[4]
Joynson-Hicks has also been 'president of the evangelical Church Mission Society.' She is a 'chartered accountant by profession'.[2]
Affiliations
Counselling Pastoral Trust, Patron[5]
Notes
- ↑ Family Education Trust About Us, accessed 22 August 2010
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The 13 voting members of the commission, Daily Telegraph, 12:01AM GMT 17 Jan 2002
- ↑ Ephraim Hardcastle Daily Mail (London) April 5, 2002, Pg. 15
- ↑ Ruth Gledhill and Lewis Smith Church's two wings are locked in moral combat, The Times (London) July 8, 2003, Tuesday Home news; 6.
- ↑ Counselling Pastoral Trust Patrons, Advisors and Staff, accessed 29 March 2012
