Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood
- Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood
Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood, known as Anthony Greenwood, (14 September 1911 – 12 April 1982) was a prominent British Labour Party politician in the 1950s and 1960s.
Son of Arthur Greenwood (Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee), Greenwood became an MP in 1946 and served on the party's National Executive Committee from 1954 to 1960. He became first Chair of Labour Friends of Israel in 1957.
He was the left wing challenger to Hugh Gaitskell in the 1961 leadership election when he received the support of just over a quarter of the Labour MPs. He served successively from 1964 to 1969 as Secretary of State for the Colonies, Minister of Overseas Development and Minister for Housing and Local Government in Harold Wilson's governments.
A founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, by his wife Gillian he had two daughters, Susanna and Dinah.
External links
* [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/hef-proj/greenwood.htm Political Papers of Arthur Greenwood (1880-1954) and Anthony Greenwood] - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford website dated 5 October 1998.
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