Career
He was created a Baronet of Longhirst and of Ulgham, both in the County of Northumberland, on 3 July 1893 and then elevated to the peerage as Baron Joicey, of Chester-le-Street in the County of Durham, on 13 January 1906. In 1924, that company merged with Lambton & Hetton Collieries to form Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries. From 1887 his seat was Longhirst Hall near Morpeth, Northumberland.
In 1906 he bought the Ford Castle estate, Ford, Northumberland and in 1908 the Etal Castle estate in Northumberland, both of which remain in the ownership of the Joicey family.