Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood
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Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood PC, KC (7 February 1870 – 10 September 1948) was a British politician. Greenwood was born in Whitby, Ontario in Canada and educated at the University of Toronto before migrating to England as a young man.
Greenwood was originally a Liberal and sat as a Member of Parliament for York from 1906 to 1910 and for Sunderland from 1910 to 1922. He served under David Lloyd George as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1919, as Additional Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Additional Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and Secretary for Overseas Trade from 1919 to 1920 and as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland, with a seat in the Cabinet, from 1920 to 1922. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1920.
As Chief Secretary he was closely identified with the aggressive use of two specially formed paramilitary forces — the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries — during the Irish War of Independence. After the burning of the centre of the city of Cork by British auxiliary forces in December 1920 Greenwood blamed the "Sinn Féin rebels" and the people of Cork for burning their own city. [1]
He lost his seat in the 1922 general election.
At the 1924 general election, Greenwood was one of a small number of Liberals, including Winston Churchill, to stand as Constitutionalist candidates. These Liberals advocated closer ties between Liberals and Conservatives. Greenwood's candidature in Walthamstow East was supported by the local Conservative association but not by the local Liberals who had their own candidate.
After the elections when it appeared that there was no prospect of formal closer ties between the two parties, Greenwood took the Conservative whip. However, he never held office again.
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[edit] Post-politics
Greenwood had been created a Baronet, of Holbourne in the County of London, in 1915, and in 1929 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Greenwood, of Llanbister in the County of Radnor. In 1937 he was further honoured when he was created Viscount Greenwood, of Holbourne in the County of London. He was president of the British Iron and Steel Federation from 1938 to 1939.
He was chairman of the Pilgrims Society from 1945 till 1948, and president in 1948.
[edit] Family
His wife, Margery, Viscountess Greenwood (née Spencer), was knighted as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1922. Their son, David Henry Hamar Greenwood, succeeded his father as the 2nd Viscount Greenwood.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Butcher and George Denison Faber |
Member of Parliament for York (with George Denison Faber) 1906–Jan. 1910 |
Succeeded by Arnold Stephenson Rowntree and John George Butcher |
| Preceded by Samuel Storey and James Knott |
Member of Parliament for Sunderland (with Frank Walter Goldstone, 1910–1918; Ralph Milbanke Hudson, 1918–1922) Dec. 1910–1922 |
Succeeded by Luke Thompson and Sir Walter Raine |
| Preceded by Louis Stanley Johnson |
Member of Parliament for Walthamstow East 1924–1929 |
Succeeded by Harry Wallace |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by James Ian Macpherson |
Chief Secretary for Ireland 1920–1922 |
Succeeded by (office abolished) |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baronet (of Holborn, London) 1915–1948 |
Succeeded by David Greenwood |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Viscount Greenwood 1937–1948 |
Succeeded by David Greenwood |
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| NAME | Greenwood, Hamar, 1st Viscount Greenwood |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7 February 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Whitby, Ontario, Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | 10 September 1948 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
