Tony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale

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The Right Honourable The Lord Greenwood of Rossendale PC
Minister of Housing and Local Government
In office 11 August 1966 – 31 May 1970
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Richard Crossman
Succeeded by	Bob Mellish
Minister of Overseas Development
In office 23 December 1965 – 11 August 1966
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Barbara Castle
Succeeded by	Arthur Bottomley
Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office 18 October 1964 – 23 December 1965
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Duncan Sandys
Succeeded by	The Earl of Longford
Chairman of the National Executive Committee
In office 4 October 1963 – 13 December 1964
Leader	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Dai Davies
Succeeded by	Ray Gunter
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 22 September 1970 – 12 April 1982 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Rossendale
In office 23 February 1950 – 18 June 1970
Preceded by	George Walker
Succeeded by	Ronald Bray
Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe
In office 21 February 1946 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by	John Edmondson Whittaker
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	(1911-09-14)14 September 1911 Leeds, England
Died	12 April 1982(1982-04-12) (aged 70)
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Gillian Crawshay-Williams ​ ​ (m. 1940)​
Children	Susanna Catherine Crawshay Greenwood, Dinah Murray
Parent	Arthur Greenwood (father)
Education	Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	Royal Air Force
Years of service	1942–1945

Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale, PC (14 September 1911 – 12 April 1982) was a prominent British Labour Party politician in the 1950s and 1960s.