The Viscountess Brentford, OBE 1942-2024

 The Viscountess Brentford, OBE, who died 28 October, 2024, aged 81, was wife of the 4th Viscount.

 The peeress was a British evangelical Anglican and activist. She served as the Third Church Estates Commissioner, one of the most senior lay people in the Church of England, from 1999 to 2005. She was also President of the Church Mission Society (CMS) between 1998 and 2007. She served as High Sheriff of East Sussex, 1998-99, and was appointed OBE in 1996.

She was born Gillian Evelyn Schluter, 22 November, 1942, daughter of Gerard Edward Schluter, OBE (1917-1979), of Nairobi, Kenya, and his wife the former Evelyn Rosie Galton-Fenzi (1920-2017), scion of the Galton landed gentry family; and married 21 March, 1964, the then Hon Crispin William Joynson-Hicks (born 7 Apr, 1933), son and heir of the 3rd Viscount Brentford (1902-1983), and his wife the former Phyllis Allfrey (died 1979), scion of that landed gentry family. Her husband succeeeded his father, 25 February, 1983, as fourth viscount (Peerage of the UK, cr 1929), and in the two baronetcies (cr UK 1919, and UK, 1956).

Viscountess Brentford is survived by her husband and a son, the Hon Paul William Joynson-Hicks (born 18 Apr, 1971), and three daughters, Emma, Rowena, and Amy.

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