21-425: Douglas King may refer to: Douglas King (politician) (1877–1930), British naval commander and politician Doug King (1937–2011), American drag racer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
42-541: A Member of Parliament for York from 1906 to 1910 and for Sunderland from 1910 to 1922. He served under David Lloyd George as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1919, as Additional Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , Additional Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade , as Secretary for Overseas Trade from 1919 to 1920, and as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland , with
63-481: A Greenwood'." Greenwood lost his seat in the 1922 general election . At the 1924 general election , he was one of a small number of Liberals, including Winston Churchill , to stand as Constitutionalist candidates. These were Liberals who advocated closer ties between Liberals and Conservatives. Greenwood's candidature in Walthamstow East was supported by the local Conservative association, but not by
84-735: A London-based Militia unit, in 1902 and was promoted to Captain in 1905. He went onto the Reserve in 1913. On the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 he served in the Department of Recruiting at the War Office , and when David Lloyd George formed the Welsh National Executive Committee to recruit a Welsh Army Corps for ' Kitchener's Army ' Greenwood was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel to raise and command
105-421: A gale off Fowey , Cornwall . All six aboard, including King himself, were lost. His memorial is at All Saints Church, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk. The memorial states that the yacht Islander was 'smashed to pieces' on the rocky coast of Lantivet Bay, Cornwall during a 'fierce summer storm'. It goes on: "At sunset in the calm stillness of a beautiful summer evening, his ashes were, by his own wish, taken out to sea by
126-714: A seat in the Cabinet, from 1920 to 1922. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1920. As Chief Secretary, Greenwood was closely identified with the aggressive use of two specially formed paramilitary forces – the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries – during the Irish War of Independence . Lord Riddell , a close friend of Prime Minister Lloyd George stated that although Greenwood's life was in constant danger he "seems to be tackling his job with great fearlessness and to be giving
147-581: Is associated with the activities of the Black and Tans in Ireland. Both his sons died unmarried meaning that the title of Viscount Greenwood became extinct in 2003. Greenwood was born in Whitby , Ontario , Canada, to John Hamar Greenwood (1829-1903), a lawyer who emigrated from Llanbister , Radnorshire , Wales , as a youth, and wife Charlotte Churchill Hubbard, who was from a United Empire Loyalist family that had an ancestor who immigrated to Canada after
168-710: The 10th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers (1st Gwent) in December. He took the battalion to the Western Front in December 1915, but was recalled to serve as a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at the War Office in April 1916 before the unit saw serious action. He was later appointed Honorary Colonel of the Winnipeg Grenadiers . Greenwood first stood for election as a Liberal and sat as
189-951: The 1929 Dissolution Honours he was raised to the peerage as Baron Greenwood, of Llanbister in the County of Radnor. In 1937 he was further honoured when he was created Viscount Greenwood, of Holbourne in the County of London. He was president of the British Iron and Steel Federation from 1938 to 1939 and chairman of the Pilgrims Society from 1945 to 1948, and president of the Pilgrims Society in 1948. He died on 10 September 1948 in London, England . His wife, Margery Spencer , daughter of The Rev. Walter Spencer of Fownhope Court, Herefordshire , and wife Anne "Annie" Elizabeth Hudson, became Viscountess Greenwood. She
210-736: The American Revolutionary War . He was educated at the University of Toronto and worked at the Department of Agriculture in Ontario before emigrating to England as a young man and qualifying as a barrister at Gray's Inn in 1906. Greenwood served as an officer in the Canadian Militia before emigrating. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment) ,
231-649: The Chief Secretary for Ireland . In 1921 he was appointed a Conservative whip . The following year he was returned to parliament for Paddington South and entered the government under Bonar Law as a Lord of the Treasury (government whip), a position he held until January 1924, the last year under the premiership of Stanley Baldwin . When the Conservatives returned to office in November 1924, King
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#1732790198460252-644: The Royal Navy before joining P & O . He left the sea in 1899 and took up farming for a short while. However, he soon turned to studying law and was called to the Bar , Middle Temple , in 1905. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Norfolk North in the two general elections of 1910, but was defeated on both occasions. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he obtained a commission in
273-812: The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and served at the Siege of Antwerp and Gallipoli . He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in recognition of his services at Gallipoli in 1915. He was also given the French Croix de Guerre and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. At the 1918 general election King once again stood for Norfolk North and was this time elected. King
294-506: The Sheringham lifeboat and within sight of his old home scattered over the face of the waters". Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood Thomas Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood , PC , KC (7 February 1870 – 10 September 1948), known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, 1st Baronet between 1915 and 1929, was a Canadian -born British lawyer and politician. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1920 and 1922 and
315-572: The Sinn Feiners some of their own medicine." After the Burning of Cork by British auxiliary forces in December 1920, Greenwood blamed the "Sinn Féin rebels" and the people of Cork for burning their own city. "A Lloyd George loyalist who believed in restoring British rule in Ireland by defeating the IRA, Greenwood’s denials and evasions became so frequent that he was lampooned with the phrase 'to tell
336-456: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Douglas_King&oldid=1048249586 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Douglas King (politician) Commodore Henry Douglas King , CB , CBE , DSO , VD , PC (1 June 1877 – 20 August 1930)
357-561: The local Liberals, who had their own candidate, and he won the seat. After the election, when it appeared that there was no prospect of closer formal ties between the two parties, Greenwood took the Conservative whip . He continued to represent Walthamstow East until 1929, although he never held government office again. Greenwood had been created a baronet, of Onslow Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington, in 1915, and in
378-607: Was a British naval commander and Conservative politician. He served under Stanley Baldwin as Financial Secretary to the War Office between 1924 and 1928 and as Secretary for Mines between 1928 and 1929. King was born in London, the son of Captain Henry Welchman King. He trained as a Merchant Navy officer in HMS Conway from 1891 to 1893. After Conway he served initially in the mercantile navy, then served in
399-735: Was made Financial Secretary to the War Office and a member of the Army Council. He held this post until 1928, and was then Secretary for Mines until the Baldwin administration fell in 1929. The latter year he was also sworn of the Privy Council following the 1929 Dissolution Honours . He had previously been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1927. King married the only daughter of W. R. Swan, of Adelaide , Australia . On 20 August 1930 King's cutter yacht Islander sank in
420-580: Was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1922. She was the sister of Muriel Forbes-Sempill , second wife of Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple , known as Molly Mountemple. They had two sons and two daughters. Their elder son, David Henry Hamar Greenwood, succeeded his father as second Viscount. He died unmarried and was succeeded as third Viscount by his younger brother, Michael George Hamar Greenwood, who died unmarried as well, in 2003 rendering
441-490: Was named a Unionist candidate in the official list of Coalition Government endorsements, but he wrote to The Times stating he had left the party before the election and should be classed as an independent. He later rejoined the party. In parliament he initially served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Leslie Wilson , Chairman of the National Maritime Board, and then to Sir Hamar Greenwood ,
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