1637 Granville Greenwood

 

Constituency : Peterborough 1906-18

Granville  unseated  the  Liberal  Unionist  Robert  Purvis.

Granville  was  the  son  of  a  barrister. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Cambridge. He  became  a  barrister. He  contested  Peterborough  in  1886  and  Hull  Central  in  1900.

Granville  was  knighted  in  1916.

Granville  was  forced  to  retire  by  rheumatism  in  1918.

Granville  was  a  champion  of  animal  welfare  and  on  the  RSPCA  Council. He  also  supported  Indian  independence.

Granville  was  a  keen  cricketer.

Granville   was  fascinated  by  the  Shakespeare  authorship  question  although  ultimately  agnostic  on  the  issue.  He wrote  12  books  on  the  subject  between  1908  and  1926  and  established  The  Shakespeare  Fellowship.

He  died  in  1928  aged  78.