Granville George Greenwood (January 3, 1850, Kensington

Kensington

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 — October 27, 1928, Notting Hill

Notting Hill

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) was an English

England

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 lawyer, politician and strenuous advocate of the Baconian theory

Baconian theory

The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship holds that Sir Francis Bacon, lawyer, philosopher, essayist and scientist, wrote the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare, and that the historical Shakespeare was merely a front to shield the identity of Bacon, who could not take...

 of Shakespearean authorship. Greenwood once played cricket for Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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, and was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Peterborough

Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Peterborough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formally styled The Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past...

 from 1906 to 1918.

Life

Greenwood was the son of John Greenwood

John Greenwood (cricketer, born 1800)

John Greenwood was an English lawyer and cricketer, who played cricket for Cambridge University....

. He was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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. Like his father and his brother Charles

Charles Greenwood

Charles Greenwood was the father of Victoria Cross winner Harry Greenwood.He was a colour sergeant of the Grenadier Guards and a Yeoman of the Guard in his own right...

, he had a brief first-class cricket career. His single appearance in a first-class cricket match was against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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, in one of Hampshire's heaviest first-class defeats: Greenwood scored a single run in each innings of the match.

Works

• The Shakespeare problem restated, 1903
• The vindicators of Shakespeare; a reply to critics, together with some remarks on Dr. Wallace's New Shakespeare discoveries, 1911
• Shakespeare's law, 1920

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