Greenwood, George, Sir, 1850-1928
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Fuller Name
- Granville George
Variants
- Greenwood, G. G. (Granville George), Sir, 1850-1928
- Forester, George, 1850-1928
- Greenwood, Granville George, Sir, 1850-1928
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1850-01-03
Death Date
- 1928-10-27
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
- Organization: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Field of Activity
Politics, Practical
Animal welfare
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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Earlier Established Forms
- Greenwood, G. G. (Granville George), Sir, 1850-1928
- Greenwood, Granville George, Sir, 1850-1928
Sources
- found: The Shakespeare problem restated, 1908:title page (by Sir George Greenwood)
- found: Shakespeare's law, 192-:title page (by Sir George Greenwood)
- found: Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, 1921:title page (by Sir George Greenwood)
- found: The Stratford bust and the Droeshout engraving, 1925:title page (by Sir George Greenwood)
- found: LC in RLIN, 11-10-89(hdg.: Greenwood, Granville George, Sir, 1850-1928; usage: Sir George Greenwood)
- found: Oxford Dictionary of national biography online, 13 December 2018(Greenwood, Sir Granville George (1850-1928), politician and animal welfare reformer, was born in London on 3 January 1850 ... was educated at Eton College (1862-9) and at Trinity College, Cambridge ... was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1872, called to the bar in 1876, and joined the western circuit. As a Liberal MP, Greenwood advocated reforms concerning land, education, the House of Lords, poor and labour laws, pensions, death certification, women's suffrage, national health insurance, proportional representation, handling of police complaints, rights of colonial natives. His main concern, however, was the protection of animals, He was a council member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from 1908 to 1927. Greenwood's main literary interest was in Shakespeare, on whose works he was considered expert. In his The Faith of an Agnostic (under the pseudonym George Forrester), Greenwood sided with T. H. Huxley against clericalism and in support of science and agnostic rationalism. He died on 27 October 1928)
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Change Notes
- 1980-07-01: new
- 2018-12-14: revised
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