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Albert Henry GREENWOOD
(1883-1939)

Albert appears to have been a volunteer in the Middlesex Regiment during the Boar war - 1896.


Alice Maud GREENWOOD
(1877-1951)

Alice was the wife of Frank SALISBURY the famous British painter.


Charles GREENWOOD
(1853-1927)

As a yeoman of the guard Charles took part in various royal ceremonies including standing guard at the lying in state of King Edward VII.


Charles Colmer GREENWOOD
(1852-aft1910)

Charles appears as Henry VIII in Frank SALISBURY's 1910 painintg 'Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon before Papal Legates at Blackfriars,1529' which currently hangs in the Houses of Parliament.


Chester GREENWOOD
(1858-1937)

Chester invented earmuffs (beaver fur pads on a wire frame) along with over 130 other patents.


Eric Stanley GREENWOOD
(1908-1979)

Eric was the first man every to exceed 600mph in level flight.


Frederick GREENWOOD
(1830-1909)

Frederick was an English journalist/writer and founding editor or the Pall Mall Gazette in London and employed his brother James William GREENWOOD (1831-1927) as a writer.


Frederick GREENWOOD
(1904-1957)

Taxidermists at Edward Gerrard & Sons. Many examples of his work can be seen a the Natural History Museum in London.


Harry GREENWOOD
(1881-1948)

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Greenwood VC, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry.


Joan GREENWOOD
(1921-1987)

British actress well known as Lady Clarista Ashwood in the gothic period melodrama 'Moonfleet' (1955)


John GREENWOOD
(1760-1819)

John was the Boston dentist who 'built' George Washington's false teeth out of hippopotamus bone. He is considered the "Father of Modern Dentistry" in the US.


John Danforth GREENWOOD
(1803-1890)

John was a Surgeon who emigrated from England to New Zealand in 1842/3.


John Eric GREENWOOD
(1891-1975)

English Rugby Captian 1920.


Greenwood Lee, Hebden Bridge
According to Thoresby's history of Leeds, published 1715, and from the records which appear in this volume, this mansion was built by Wyomarus de Greenwode or his immediate descendants.


Leonard Montague GREENWOOD
(1893-1918)

Major 13th Service Battalion Durham Ligh Infantry.


Robert GREENWOOD
(1721-1810)

Robert of Box Tree, Lupton was the 6th Robert in his line dating back to 1535 from that area.


Ronald 'Ron' GREENWOOD
(1921-2006)

Ron was an English football player and manager, best known for being manager of the English national football team from 1977 until 1982.


Thomas GREENWOOD
(1827-1895)

Thomas created Deloitte & Greenwood, Chartered Accountants in partnership with W. W. Deloitte in 1858. Chairman of Vulcan Foundry Steam Engine makers.


Thomas GREENWOOD
(1643-1693)

Thomas was probably the first Greenwood in America. Grave marker in Centre Street Cemetery, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.


St. Thomas a Becket
This now derelict church was attended by many generations of the Greenwoods at Heptonstall.


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