Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet
Politician
1806 – 1894
Who was Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet?
Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet, was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1847 and 1892.
Greenall was the sixth and youngest son of Edward Greenall of Walton Hall, Cheshire. His grandfather was Thomas Greenall, who had established a brewery in St Helen's in 1762, on which the family wealth was based. Greenall assumed control of the family brewery business and also had interests in the St Helens Canal and Railway Company and in Parr, Lyons and Greenall Bank, based in Warrington. He was and a J.P. for Lancashire and Cheshire.
In 1847 Greenall was elected as Member of Parliament for Warrington, a seat he held until 1868, when he was unseated through an error of the Mayor's poll-clerk. In 1873 he was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire and in 1874, he was reelected MP for Warrington. In 1876 he was created a Baronet, of Walton Hall in the County of Chester. He lost his seat at Warrington in 1880, but was re-elected in 1885 and remained until he retired at the 1892 general election.
Greenall married, firstly, Mary, daughter of David Claughton, in 1836.
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- Born
- May 11, 1806
- Children
- Died
- Jul 10, 1894
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on July 23, 2013
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