About Edmund Greenwood
Lived 1881 – 1948 (aged 66). Edmund Greenwood was an Australian politician.
Edmund Wilson Greenwood (21 September 1881 – 7 September 1948) was an Australian politician.
Greenwood was born in Campbelltown in Tasmania to Methodist minister Henry Greenwood and Caroline Jane Tuckfield. with whom he had seven children.
In 1917 Greenwood was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Boroondara; he was considered a Nationalist, but never sought formal party endorsement. He continued in the Assembly, transferring to Nunawading in April 1927, until he retired to allow Robert Menzies to run for a lower house seat in 1929. Greenwood died in Richmond in 1948.
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Australian politician
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Edmund Greenwood was born on 21 September 1881.
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Edmund Greenwood died on 7 September 1948.
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Edmund Greenwood was a politician.
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