Adrian Greenwood
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| Born | October 1973 UK |
| Died | April 2016 (aged 42) Iffley Road, Oxford, UK |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Tonbridge School |
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Christ Church Oxford Imperial College London |
| Subject | Military history |
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Adrian Greenwood (October 1973 – April 2016) was a British historian, biographer, author, and art dealer, with a particular interest in nineteenth-century British military history. As well as hundreds of articles on antiques and collecting, he wrote two books on military history.
Greenwood's mother (now retired) was a dentist practising in Reigate, Surrey. His father Jeremy Greenwood is also a part-time historian, lecturer and researcher who has written a number of books, often on arcane subjects, including Fuller's Earth in Surrey 1500-1900: an Economic History (1983), The New Forest and the Navy: Timber Supplies to Portsmouth Dockyard, 1660-1790 (2004), The Posts of Sussex - the Chichester branch, 1250-1840 (1973), and Essays towards a History of Reigate (1988), a work which formed the basis of Jeremy Greenwood's doctoral thesis.
Adrian Greenwood attended the Hawthorns School, Bletchingley, Surrey, an independent co-educational preparatory school (though at the time a boys-only boarding school), and then Tonbridge School, Kent, where his history teacher for A level was Dr (later Sir) Anthony Seldon. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Christ Church, Oxford before studying for an MBA at Imperial College, London.
After leaving Imperial College, Greenwood began buying British Rail lost property - umbrellas, mobile phones, coats, and prams - and selling them at car boot sales around London. He soon moved on to antique furniture.
"The trouble was I wasn't very good at it, and after a couple of years things got pretty desperate. To make ends meet I delivered copies of the Yellow Pages. At one point I applied for a job as a pall bearer."
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