Thomas George Greenwell
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Colonel Thomas George Greenwell (1894 - 1967) was the National Conservative M.P. for The Hartlepools and the managing director of the ship-repair yard, T.W.Greenwell and Co. Ltd, a Sunderland yard which had been founded by his father in 1901.
The by-election he won in 1943 was held according to the convention of the war years - neither the Labour Party nor the Liberal Party put up a candidate, to give the incumbent party a clear run, although an independent, a Commonwealth Party candidate and a Progressive Socialist stood. The 'swing' to the Conservatives was the largest in any by-election in the war years, largely because of Greenwell's strongly pro-Churchillian stance. Surprisingly, the post-war General Election only just removed him as an MP - there was a recount.
His daughter, Pamela Hunter, later followed him into politics, and was Chair of the Conservative Party Conference in the year of the Brighton bombing (she was subsequently made a D.B.E.).
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| Preceded by William George Howard Gritten |
Member of Parliament for The Hartlepools 1943–1945 |
Succeeded by David Thomas Jones |
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