C A Joyce

 Cyril Alfred "C A" Joyce (1900-) was a British prison manager and headmaster of an Approved School.

He served in the army during World War I, and afterwards in the Army Education Corps. He then took a degree at University College, Southampton. He joined the prison service in 1922.

One of his charges at Borstal was the young IRA volunteer and novelist Brendan Behan, known for his autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy.

He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 30 October 1971.

A biography of Joyce, The hidden boy, by Richard Heron Ward, was published in 1962 His autobiography, Thoughts of a Lifetime, was published in 1971.

Joyce's wife was an accomplished sculptor.