Edmund Greenwood
Australian politician
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Edmund Wilson Greenwood (21 September 1881 – 7 September 1948) was an Australian politician.
Greenwood was born in Campbelltown in Tasmania to Methodist minister Henry Greenwood and Caroline Jane Tuckfield.[1] The family moved to Victoria around 1890, and Greenwood became an office boy and from 1897 a farm labourer. He suffered an accident in 1902 and returned to Melbourne, becoming a commercial traveller. From 1904 he ran a tent manufacturing firm, which eventually expanded to become a large softgoods warehouse. On 6 February 1906 he married Myra Frances Burchett,[1] with whom he had seven children.
In 1917 Greenwood was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Boroondara;[2] he was considered a Nationalist, but never sought formal party endorsement. He continued in the Assembly, transferring to Nunawading in April 1927,[2] until he retired to allow Robert Menzies to run for a lower house seat in 1929. Greenwood died in Richmond in 1948.[2]