Ashley Greenwood
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Ashley Martin Greenwood OBE MC QC |
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| 4th Solicitor General of Fiji | |
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In office 1956–1956 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor | Sir Ronald Garvey |
| Preceded by | William Gordon Bryce |
| Succeeded by | Henry Roger Justin Lewis |
| 19th Attorney General of Fiji | |
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In office 1956–1963 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor |
Sir Ronald Garvey Sir Kenneth Maddocks |
| Preceded by | Brian Andre Doyle |
| Succeeded by | Henry Roger Justin Lewis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 June 1912 London, England |
| Died | 30 September 2003 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | British subject |
| Spouse(s) | Rosemary Howard 24 April 1956-30 September 2003 (his death) |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
| Profession | Lawyer, judge, soldier |
| Military service | |
| Unit | Royal Artillery |
Ashley Martin Greenwood OBE MC QC (12 June 1912 - 30 September 2003) was a British soldier, lawyer, and judge. He served inter alia as Attorney General of Fiji and Attorney General of Gibraltar, as well as a judge in Uganda. He was also an accomplished mountaineer. He calculated that in his climbing, military and legal careers, he had spent time in 103 countries.
Educated initially at Haileybury College, Greenwood enrolled at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in Classics and graduated in Law.
In his student days, Greenwood developed a lifelong passion for mountaineering, scaling numerous peaks in the Alps, Dolomites, Tyrol, and Norway, as well as mountains closer to home in Scotland and Wales. He was elected to the Alpine Club at the age of 24. His mountaineering expertise proved crucial during his military service in the Second World War. He went on to marry a fellow-mountaineer. He celebrated his 80th birthday by scaling the 6121-meter high Stok Kangri Himalayan peak in Ladakh.
Greenwood joined the Royal Artillery as a temporary Captain in 1940, with service number 132776. In April 1943, at a mountain warfare conference at Lochailort, Scotland, he was transferred to the New Zealand Squadron as a climbing instructor for mountain warfare. He accompanied the New Zealand Squadron in its ultimately doomed attempt to occupy the Italian-controlled Dodecanese Islands. Escaping to Turkey, he went on to become a liaison offider for the Long Range Desert Group of a British brigade in Montenegro in 1945. In June 1945, he joined the Allied Military Government Organization in Austria, serving until March 1946. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Colonial Office. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944.
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