Leonard Greenwood (classicist)
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Leonard Hugh Graham Greenwood (30 August 1880 – 16 November 1965) was a New Zealand classical scholar at Cambridge University.
Greenwood was born in Gisborne, New Zealand to Graham Greenwood (1834-1917) and Isobel (née Martin).[1][2] Greenwood's father, Graham Lord Greenwood, was the son of John Danforth Greenwood and the artist Sarah Greenwood.[3]
He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, and King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in classics. He then lectured at Leeds University 1903–1907 and was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1906–1909. In 1909 he was elected to a fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and taught classics there for 40 years. He died in Cambridge.[4] He was elected a member of the Cambridge Apostles in 1903.[5]
