Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet, DL, JP (11 May 1806 – 10 July 1894) was a British businessman and

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politician who sat in the

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between 1847 and 1892.

Life

Greenall was the sixth and youngest son of Edward Greenall of Walton Hall, Cheshire. His grandfather was Thomas Greenall, who had established a brewery in St Helens in 1762, on which the family wealth was based. Greenall assumed control of the family brewery business and also had interests in the St Helens Canal and Railway Company and in Parr, Lyons and Greenall Bank, based in

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. He was and a J.P. for

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and

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. In 1847 Greenall was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for

, a seat he held until 1868, when he was unseated through an error of the Mayor's poll-clerk. In 1873 he was appointed

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and in 1874, he was reelected MP for Warrington. In 1876 he was created a Baronet, of Walton Hall in the County of Chester. He lost his seat at Warrington in 1880, but was re-elected in 1885 and remained until he retired at the 1892 general election. Greenall married, firstly, Mary, daughter of David Claughton, in 1836. After her death in 1861 he married, secondly, Susannah, daughter of John Lovis Rapp. He died in July 1894, aged 88, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son from his first marriage, Gilbert, who was created Baron Daresbury in 1927. Susannah, Lady Greenall, died in 1896.

Coat of arms

Greenall's coat of arms has a shield of ''Or on a bend nebuly Vert three bugle horns stringed of the first'' and crest and mantle ''Upon a torse Or and vert, Upon a pomeis a bugle horn stringed Or between a vol of the last, the mantling vert doubled Or''.

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

External links

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