Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Walter Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet, DSO (4 August 1869 – 24 August 1947) was a British Conservative politician and army officer. He was the second son of Edward Greene (the 1st Baronet) and Anne Elizabeth Royds. He studied at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford.

Greene entered politics in 1895 as Member of Parliament for the Western (Chesterton) Division of Cambridgeshire. He served as a lieutenant in the Suffolk Yeomanry from 1893 and went to South Africa for the Second Boer War in 1900, where he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry and promoted to captain later that year. He was re-elected in 1900 while on active service.

He lost his seat in the Liberal landslide of 1906. In 1907 he was elected to the London County Council for Hackney North with the Municipal Reform Party. He returned to Parliament for Hackney North in January 1910 and served as chairman of the LCC housing committee that year.

During World War I he fought on the Western Front, initially with the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers and earning the Distinguished Service Order. He later commanded the 2/3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) and finished the war as a staff officer. He held his parliamentary seat in the 1918 election. In 1920, upon his father’s death, he became the 2nd Baronet.

Greene won Hackney North again in 1922 but was defeated in 1923 and did not stand again. He never married and died in 1947 at the age of 78. The baronetcy passed to his younger brother, Edward.