Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood
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Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood, known as Anthony Greenwood, (14 September 1911 – 12 April 1982) was a prominent British Labour Party politician in the 1950s and 1960s.
Son of Arthur Greenwood (Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee), Greenwood became an MP in 1946 and served on the party's National Executive Committee from 1954 to 1960. He became first Chair of Labour Friends of Israel in 1957.
He was the left wing challenger to Hugh Gaitskell in the 1961 leadership election when he received the support of just over a quarter of the Labour MPs. He served successively from 1964 to 1969 as Secretary of State for the Colonies, Minister of Overseas Development and Minister for Housing and Local Government in Harold Wilson's governments.
A founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, by his wife Gillian he had two daughters, Susanna and Dinah, mother of the environmental activist, Leo Murray.[1]
[edit] External links
- Political Papers of Arthur Greenwood (1880-1954) and Anthony Greenwood - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford website dated 5 October 1998.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Edmondson Whittaker |
Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe 1946–1950 |
Succeeded by (constituency abolished: see Heywood and Royton |
| Preceded by George Henry Walker |
Member of Parliament for Rossendale 1950–1970 |
Succeeded by Ronald Bray |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Dai Davies |
Chair of the Labour Party 1963–1964 |
Succeeded by Ray Gunter |
| Preceded by Duncan Sandys |
Secretary of State for the Colonies 1964–1965 |
Succeeded by Lord Longford |
| Preceded by Barbara Castle |
Minister of Overseas Development 1965–1966 |
Succeeded by Arthur Bottomley |
| Preceded by Richard Crossman |
Minister of Housing and Local Government 1966–1969 |
Succeeded by replaced by Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning |
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