Colonel Thomas George Greenwell, TD, DL (18 December 1894 – 15 November 1967) was a British politician. He was the National Conservative

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(MP) for

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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

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, and at

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.'GREENWELL, Col. Thomas George', in ''Who Was Who'' (A. & C. Black, 1920–2008
online edition
by

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, December 2007, accessed 3 December 2011 (subscription required) The by-election he won in 1943 was held according to the convention of the war years - neither the Labour Party nor the

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put up a candidate, to give the incumbent party a clear run, although an independent, a

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candidate and a Progressive Socialist stood. The 'swing' to the

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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

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. He was also a

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and Deputy Lieutenant for

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. In ''

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'' he gave his recreation as salmon fishing. He was a member of the

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. 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

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of the

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* 1894 births 1967 deaths Politics of the Borough of Hartlepool Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 High Sheriffs of Durham People educated at Gresham's School Deputy Lieutenants of Durham {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1890s-stub