Baron Greenhill, of
Townhead in the City of
Glasgow
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, was a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great ...
. It was created on 8 July 1950 for
Ernest Greenhill, a former member of the
Glasgow Corporation
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Local government
As one ...
. His elder son, the second Baron, was Professor of Community Medicine at the
University of Alberta
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in
Canada
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. The third Baron, who succeeded in 1989, once worked for the
UK Ministry of Defence as a
patent attorney
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.
Barons Greenhill (1950)
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Ernest Greenhill, 1st Baron Greenhill, OBE (1887–1967)
*Stanley Ernest Greenhill, 2nd Baron Greenhill (1917–1989)
*Malcolm Greenhill, 3rd Baron Greenhill (1924–2020)
On the death of the 3rd Baron on 13 January 2020,
the barony became extinct.
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1950
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