John Greenwood was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 lawyer and cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er, who played cricket for Cambridge University

Cambridge University Cricket Club

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John Greenwood was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College, Cambridge

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. He made two first-class appearances for the university cricket team between 1820 and 1821, scoring just two runs in three innings, including two ducks. Gaining a BA as 13th Wrangler in 1822, he became a Fellow of Jesus and was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn

Lincoln's Inn

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 in 1828. He later entered the Middle Temple

Middle Temple

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, where he became a Bencher

Bencher

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. He was Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury from 1851 to 1866, and Solicitor to the Treasury from 1866 until his death.

Greenwood's sons, Granville

Granville Greenwood

Granville George Greenwood was an English lawyer, politician and strenuous advocate of the Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship. Greenwood once played cricket for Hampshire, and was Member of Parliament for Peterborough from 1906 to 1918.-Life:Greenwood was the son of John Greenwood...

 and 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...

both played first-class cricket.