John Greenwood (MP)
John Greenwood (4 February 1821 – 21 February 1874) was an English Liberal politician who served as Member of Parliament for Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1853 to 1865. He was the son of Frederick Greenwood and Sarah Staniforth, and his family lived at Swarcliffe Hall near Harrogate; the hall was built in 1848 for him by architect Rohde Hawkins, the husband of his sister Mary Littledale Greenwood. He studied at Lincoln's Inn, earning a BA in 1851 and an MA in 1860.
In 1852 he married Louisa Elizabeth Barnardiston, and they had five children: Frederick, Charles, Edwin, Hubert, and Clara, who married Francis Edward Fitzalan-Howard, Lord Howard of Glossop. He was the grandfather of cricketer R. T. Stanyforth through his son Edwin. Greenwood also served as a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire and held the rank of Major in the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry. He died in Pimlico, London in 1874.
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