Thomas George Greenwell
Colonel Thomas George Greenwell (18 December 1894 – 15 November 1967)[1] was the National Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) 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.
Greenwell was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and at King's College, Newcastle.[2]
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 Common Wealth 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 1945 general election only just removed him — there was a recount. In 1951 he was appointed High Sheriff of Durham.[3]
He was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for County Durham. In Who's Who he gave his recreation as salmon fishing. He was a member of the Carlton Club.[2]
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 Dame of the Order of the British Empire).
Sources
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
- 1 2 'GREENWELL, Col. Thomas George', in Who Was Who (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 3 December 2011 (subscription required)
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 39175. p. 1428. 16 March 1951. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
External links
- billgreenwell.com
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Greenwell
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by William Gritten |
Member of Parliament for The Hartlepools 1943 – 1945 |
Succeeded by David Thomas Jones |