Viscount Greenwood, of
Holbourne in the
County
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of
London
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, was a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the politician
Thomas 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
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Facilities
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in the County of
Radnor, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1929. His younger son, the 3rd Viscount, who succeeded his elder brother in 1998, was an actor. The titles became extinct on his death in 2003.
Viscounts Greenwood (1937)
*Thomas
Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood
Thomas Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC, King's Counsel, KC (7 February 1870 – 10 September 1948), known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, between 1915 and 1929, was a Canadians, Canadian-born ...
(1870–1948)
*David Henry Hamar Greenwood, 2nd Viscount Greenwood (1914–1998)
*Michael George Hamar Greenwood, 3rd Viscount Greenwood (1923–2003)
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* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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2003 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
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