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Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

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The Greenwell Baronetcy, of Marden Park in Godstone in the County of Surrey and Greenwell in Wolsingham in the County of Durham, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 July 1906 as part of the King's Birthday Honours for the stockbroker Walpole Greenwell. The Greenwell family has owned the Gedgrave estate in Suffolk since the 1930s, and has land in Inverness-shire. The baronetical Greenwells were a junior line of a family of Durham gentry, and were for generations resident at Corbridge, Northumberland; in 1890, Sir Walpole Lloyd Greenwell, 1st Baronet purchased the Greenwell property granted to the family before 1183 from a daughter of the senior line of the Greenwell family.

Greenwell baronets, of Marden Park and Greenwell (1906)

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  • Sir Walpole Lloyd Greenwell, 1st Baronet (9 June 1847 – 25 October 1919)
  • Sir Bernard Eyre Greenwell, 2nd Baronet (29 May 1874 – 28 November 1939)
  • Sir Peter McClintock Greenwell, 3rd Baronet (1914–1978)
  • Sir Edward Bernard Greenwell, 4th Baronet (born 10 June 1948)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Alexander Bernard Peter Greenwell (born 1987).

Sir Walpole Lloyd Greenwell, Bt.

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The first Baronet had also been High Sheriff of Surrey in 1903 (having been first nominated in 1900) and His Majesty's Lieutenant of the City of London. Walpole Greenwell, who fought in the First Boer War, became a member of the London Stock Exchange at age 21 and founded W. Greenwell & Co., which would become one of the wealthiest and most prominent stockbroking firms in the City of London. He was a keen agriculturist, a prominent breeder of pedigree stock, particularly Shorthorn cattle and Shire horses, for which he was awarded numerous championships, and was President of the Royal Shire Horse Society. His Shire horse stud was considered the finest in the country. He was a trustee of the Whiteley Homes Trust, the Holloway Sanatorium, and a member of the governing body of Royal Holloway College.

Sir Bernard Eyre Greenwell, Bt.

Walpole Greenwell was succeeded by his son Major Bernard Greenwell MBE, who also succeeded him as senior partner in the family stockbroking firm. He farmed two large country estates, Marden Park and Butley Abbey Farm near Woodbridge, Suffolk. He married in 1902 Anna Elizabeth McClintock, daughter of Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock KCB.

Sir Peter McLintock Greenwell, Bt.

Peter Greenwell was High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1966–67.

Sir Edward Bernard Greenwell, Bt., DL

Edward Greenwell is a deputy lieutenant of Suffolk and was high sheriff of Suffolk for 2013–14.

References

References

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  3. "The Gedgrave & Dalmigavie Estates". Gedgrave.
  4. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1654
  5. Greenwell, Bill. (2002). "Fish in a Tree". Bill Greenwell.
  6. (13 November 1900). "Nomination of Sheriffs". [[The Times]].
  7. {{London Gazette. (13 March 1903)
  8. (28 October 1919). "City Notes". [[The Times]].
  9. (28 June 1913). "Agricultural Research". [[The Times]].
  10. (27 February 1913). "The King at the Shire Horse Show". [[The Times]].
  11. (27 October 1919). "Obituary: Sir Walpole Greenwell". [[The Times]].
  12. Sinclair, James. (1907). "History of Shorthorn cattle". Vinton & Company.
  13. (30 November 1939). "Obituary: Sir Bernard Greenwell". [[The Times]].
  14. (22 November 1902). "Marriages".
  15. {{London Gazette. (26 March 1965)
  16. (2014). "Suffolk". High Sheriffs' Association of England and Wales.

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