Arthur Greenwood

The Right Honourable Arthur Greenwood CH MP
Greenwood in 1924
Paymaster General
In office 9 July 1946 – 5 March 1947
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Frederick Lindemann
Succeeded by	Hilary Marquand
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
In office 27 July 1945 – 17 April 1947
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Max Aitken
Succeeded by	Philip Inman
Minister without Portfolio
In office 17 April 1947 – 29 September 1947
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	A. V. Alexander
Succeeded by	Geoffrey FitzClarence
In office 11 May 1940 – 22 February 1942
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Maurice Hankey
Succeeded by	William Jowitt
Leader of the Opposition
In office February 1942 – 23 May 1945
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
Succeeded by	Clement Attlee
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
In office 26 November 1935 – 25 May 1945
Leader	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Clement Attlee
Succeeded by	Herbert Morrison
Minister of Health
In office 7 June 1929 – 24 August 1931
Prime Minister	Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by	Neville Chamberlain
Succeeded by	Neville Chamberlain
Member of Parliament for Wakefield
In office 21 April 1932 – 9 June 1954
Preceded by	George Brown Hillman
Succeeded by	Arthur Creech Jones
Member of Parliament for Nelson and Colne
In office 15 November 1922 – 7 October 1931
Preceded by	Robinson Graham
Succeeded by	Linton Thorp
Personal details
Born	(1880-02-08)8 February 1880 Hunslet, Leeds, England
Died	9 June 1954(1954-06-09) (aged 74) London, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Catherine Ainsworth
Children	2, including Tony

Arthur Greenwood CH (8 February 1880 – 9 June 1954) was a British politician. A prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s, Greenwood rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924. In 1940, he was instrumental in resolving that Britain would continue fighting Nazi Germany in World War II.