Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge

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1865 – 1906

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Who was Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge?

Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge was a writer on ancient history and law. He was the second son of the Rev Nathaniel Heath Greenidge, vicar of Boscobel Parish, St Peter and his wife Elizabeth Cragg Kellman, was born on 22 December 1865 at Belle Farm Estate, Barbados. His father was for many years a headmaster of various schools and enjoyed a high reputation as a teacher. His brother, Samuel Wilberforce won a Barbados Scholarship in 1882 and went up to St John’s College, Cambridge, was 25th wrangler in the Cambridge mathematical tripos of 1886 and the following year attained second class honours in the Law Tripos. He was McMahon Law Student in 1888 and called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1889 but died in 1890. The Greenidge family trace their ancestry in Barbados to John of Greenwich who left London on 2 May 1635 on the ship Alexander. Within one generation the etymon, meaning Green Port or Trading Place of the surname had assumed the distinctly West Indian orthographic format of Greenidge, while maintaining a very similar phenomic identity.

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Born
1865
Also known as
  • A. H. J. Greenidge
  • Greenidge, Abel Hendy Jones
Education
  • Harrison College
Died
1906

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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