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Colonel Thomas George Greenwell (18 December 1894 – 15 November 1967) was the National Conservative Member of Parliament

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(MP) for The Hartlepools

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and the managing director of the ship-repair yard, T.W.Greenwell and Co. Ltd, a Sunderland yard which had been founded by his father in 1901.

The by-election he won in 1943 was held according to the convention of the war years - neither the Labour Party

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nor the Liberal Party

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put up a candidate, to give the incumbent party a clear run, although an independent, a Common Wealth Party

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candidate and a Progressive Socialist stood.