Greenwood, George, Sir, 1850-1928

LC control no.	n 50035242
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Greenwood, George, Sir, 1850-1928 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Greenwood, G. G. (Granville George), Sir, 1850-1928 Forester, George, 1850-1928 Greenwood, Granville George, Sir, 1850-1928
Birth date	1850-01-03
Death date	1928-10-27
Field of activity	Politics, Practical Animal welfare Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Affiliation	Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Found in	The Shakespeare problem restated, 1908: title page (by Sir George Greenwood) Shakespeare's law, 192-: title page (by Sir George Greenwood) Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, 1921: title page (by Sir George Greenwood) The Stratford bust and the Droeshout engraving, 1925: title page (by Sir George Greenwood) LC in RLIN, 11-10-89 (hdg.: Greenwood, Granville George, Sir, 1850-1928; usage: Sir George Greenwood) Oxford Dictionary of national biography online, 13 December 2018 (Greenwood, Sir Granville George (1850-1928), politician and animal welfare reformer, was born in London on 3 January 1850 ... was educated at Eton College (1862-9) and at Trinity College, Cambridge ... was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1872, called to the bar in 1876, and joined the western circuit. As a Liberal MP, Greenwood advocated reforms concerning land, education, the House of Lords, poor and labour laws, pensions, death certification, women's suffrage, national health insurance, proportional representation, handling of police complaints, rights of colonial natives. His main concern, however, was the protection of animals, He was a council member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from 1908 to 1927. Greenwood's main literary interest was in Shakespeare, on whose works he was considered expert. In his The Faith of an Agnostic (under the pseudonym George Forrester), Greenwood sided with T. H. Huxley against clericalism and in support of science and agnostic rationalism. He died on 27 October 1928)