Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Greenwood Bt KC PC |
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| Chief Secretary for Ireland | |
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In office 2 April 1920 – 19 October 1922 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Ian Macpherson |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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| Born |
7 February 1870 Whitby, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | September 10, 1948 (aged 78) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Liberal Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Margery Spencer (1886-1968) (m. 1911; his death 1948) |
| Education | University of Toronto |
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Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, PC, KC (7 February 1870 – 10 September 1948), known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, between 1915 and 1929 and as The Lord Greenwood between 1929 and 1937, was a Canadian-born British lawyer and politician. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1920 and 1922. Both his sons died unmarried rendering the Greenwood viscountcy extinct in 2003.
Greenwood was born in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, to John Hamar Greenwood (1829-1903), a lawyer who emigrated from Llanbister, Radnorshire in Wales as a youth, and Charlotte Churchill Hubbard, who was from a United Empire Loyalist family that had an ancestor who immigrated to Canada after the American Revolutionary War. He was educated at the University of Toronto before emigrating to England as a young man.
Greenwood was originally a Liberal and sat as Member of Parliament for York from 1906-10 and for Sunderland from 1910-22.
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 Counsellor in 1920.
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