Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood

Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood

Thomas Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood , Bt , KC , PC (born February 7, 1870 in Whitby , Ontario , Canada , † September 10, 1948 in London ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and later the Conservative Party , which under including 1906-1922 and 1924-1929 member of the House again ( House of Commons ) was. In 1929 he became a peer collected and thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) , where he remained until his death.

Life

Lawyer, Member of the House of Commons and First World War

Hamar Greenwood as a lawyer (1910)

Greenwood was the second of four children of Canadian practicing attorney John Hamar Greenwood and his wife Charlotte Churchill Hubbard. After attending school, he himself began an undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto , which he completed in 1895 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In addition to legal training, he did military service in the King Edward's Horse cavalry regiment (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment) , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1902 and captain in 1905 . In 1906 he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Gray's Inn ) and then took up a job as a barrister .

At the same time Greenwood was in the general election of January 12, 1906 for the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented there first the constituency of York . In the general election of December 3, 1910 , he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons, in which he now represented the constituency of Sunderland until November 15, 1922 . In 1913 he was taken over as a captain in the Canadian militia and at the beginning of World War I appointed commander of the 10th Battalion of the South Wales Borderers Line Infantry Regiment, in which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel shortly afterwards . On February 8, 1915, he was given the hereditary dignity of baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom , of Onslow Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington. For his legal services, he was also a so-called "Bencher" board member of the Gray's Inn Bar Association in 1917.

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

After the end of the First World War, Greenwood took over on January 10, 1919 in the cabinet of Prime Minister David Lloyd George the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Home Department , which he held until April 29, 1919. Furthermore, he was appointed due to its legal merits Attorney (King's Counsel) . As part of a reorganization of the Lloyd George government, he took over from April 29, 1919 to April 2, 1920 the post of Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade and, after another government reorganization, on April 2, 1920, the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland ( Chief Secretary for Ireland ) , which he held until the termination of this office on October 19, 1922. As such, he was from 1920 to 1922 and Chancellor of the Order of St Patrick , and was also on April 26, 1920, member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) also called the United Kingdom and on 6 May 1920, member of the Privy Council of Ireland .

Greenwood, who also temporarily magistrate (justice of the peace) of the County of Middlesex , was joined in the general election on October 29, 1924 for the Conservative Party and took after his election until May 30, 1929 the constituency of Walthamstow East .

After leaving the House of Commons, Greenwood was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom on August 31, 1929 as Baron Greenwood , of Llanbister in the County of Radnor, and thereby became a member of the House of Lords. He was also treasurer of the Gray's Inn Bar Association in 1930 and treasurer of the Conservative Party between 1933 and 1938. On February 16, 1937 he was also raised in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Viscount Greenwood , of Holbourne in the Couny of London. 1938 awarded him his alma mater , the University of Toronto, an honorary doctor of law (Honorary Doctor of Law) . In addition to his political career, Greenwood was also active as an economic manager and, among other things, chairman of the board of directors of Dorman, Long & Company , Redpath, Brown and Company , Lewis Berger & Sons and Aerated Brown and, between 1938 and 1939, president of the iron and steel manufacturers' association BISF ( British Iron and Steel Federation) .

Family and offspring

Hamar Greenwood was married to Lady Margery Spencer from 1911 until his death in 1948

Greenwood married Margery Spencer, daughter of Reverend Walter Spencer, on May 23, 1911. This marriage resulted in four children, including David Henry Hamar Greenwood , who inherited the title of nobility as the 2nd Viscount Greenwood on his death on September 10, 1948. Since he died unmarried and without male descendants, Hamar Greenwood's second son Michael Henry Hamar Greenwood inherited the title of 3rd Viscount Greenwood after his death on July 30, 1998 . Since he died on July 7, 2003 without any descendants, the titles expired with his death.

Through his eldest daughter Angela Margo Hamar Greenwood, Hamar Greenwood was the great-grandfather of models Poppy Delevingne and Cara Delevingne . His second, younger daughter, Deborah Hamar Greenwood, was married to a son of the painter Philip Alexius de László .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The London Gazette : No. 29070, p. 1553 , February 16, 1915.
2. ^ The London Gazette : No. 33532, p. 5772 , September 6, 1929.
3. ^ The London Gazette : No. 34375, p. 1324 , February 26, 1937.

Web links

• Mr Hamar Greenwood at Hansard (English)
• Thomas Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood on thepeerage.com , accessed July 23, 2018.
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• PEERAGE in Leigh Rayment's Peerage
• PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915-1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage
• BAROQUE in Leigh Rayment's Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
Title created	Baronet, of Onslow Gardens 1915-1948	David Greenwood
Title created	Baron Greenwood 1929-1948	David Greenwood
Title created	Viscount Greenwood 1937-1948	David Greenwood