Arthur Greenwood




Arthur Greenwood was a Labour Party Politician and Member of Parliament for Wakefield. He held both Ministerial appointments and Shadow Ministerial appointments in pre WWII Government, the wartime Coalition Government and Clement Attlee's post war Government. His son Anthony Greenwood was an MP and served in Harold Wilson's Government and was later Lord Greenwood
                                                               

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