Viscount Greenwood
1st Viscount Greenwood
Viscount Greenwood, of Holbourne in the County of London, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Baron Greenwood. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1920 to 1922. Greenwood had already been created a Baronet, of Onslow Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 February 1915, and Baron Greenwood, of Llanbister in the County of Radnor, in 1929. His younger son, the third Viscount (who succeeded his elder brother in 1998), was an actor. The titles became extinct on his death in 2003.[1][2]
Viscounts Greenwood (1937)
- Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood (1870–1948)
- David Henry Hamar Greenwood, 2nd Viscount Greenwood (1914–1998)
- Michael George Hamar Greenwood, 3rd Viscount Greenwood (1923–2003)
Notes
- ^ "Colleges". Oxford University Gazette. 133. 31 July 2003. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
THE HON. MICHAEL GEORGE HAMAR GREENWOOD, 7 July 2003; commoner 1942. Aged 80.
- ^ "Viscount". Debretts. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
Since 1989 eight viscountcies have become extinct: Muirsheil, Furness, Watkinson, Lambert, Leverhulme, Greenwood, Cross and Ingleby, and Barrington is dormant or extinct.
References
- Seedorf, Martin F. "Greenwood, Hamar, first Viscount Greenwood (1870–1948), politician and businessman" (PDF). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33545. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's peerage, baronetage & knightage, clan chiefs, Scottish feudal barons (107th ed.). Wilmington: Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 9780971196629. Search website for "Delevingne" for snippet view.
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]