Harry Greenway

Harry Greenway (born October 4, 1934), is a British Conservative politician. He is married to Carol with one son and two daughters. He was educated at Warwick School and the College of St Mark & St John, kown as 'Marjon'. This was originally based in London, but has now relocated to Plymouth, as the University College of Plymouth St Mark and St John. He also attended the University of Caen, Normandy.

He contested Stepney at the Parliamentary election in 1970 and Stepney and Poplar in 1974. He was elected MP for Ealing North in 1979 [" 'The Times Guide to the House of Commons' ", Times Newspapers Limited, 1997 edition] . He defeated the Labour candidate for Ealing North, Hilary Benn in both the 1983 and 1987 general elections [cite web|title = Hilary Benn website|url = http://www.hilarybenn.com/about-hilary-benn.php/|accessdate = 2008-02-15] . Greenway finally lost the seat to Labour's Stephen Pound at the 1997 general election. Mr Greenway was due to receive the honour of the Freedom of the Borough of Ealing during February 2008 [cite web|title = Ealing Borough Council Summons, February 2008|url = http://www.ealing.gov.uk/ealing3/export/sites/ealingweb/services/council/committees/agendas_minutes_reports/council/15may2007-19may2008/_19_feb_2008/front_page.doc|accessdate = 2008-03-12] [cite web|title = House Magazine, 14 January 2008 "Politics with a Poker Face"|url = http://www.housemag.co.uk/index.php?id=340&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7383&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=92&type=editorial/|accessdate = 2008-02-15] .

In 1992, Mr Greenway, as a member of the Commons, was prosecuted for the common law offence of bribery of a person holding a public office. He was subsequently acquitted [cite web|title = House of Commons Research Paper 02/92, p24 "et seq"|url = http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2001/rp01-092.pdf/|accessdate = 2008-02-16] .

During the 1960s Harry Greenway was a schoolteacher of English and sport, later becoming the Head House Master of Telford House at Sir William Collins Secondary School for Boys (later renamed South Camden Community School) in Charrington Street, Somers Town, London NW1, a large state comprehensive school of ca 1,200 boys. He introduced several new sports to the school including Horse Riding and other equine activities, Winter Sports and Men's Hockey. He later became Deputy Headmaster of Sedgehill Secondary School between 1972 and 1979, a very large comprehensive school with ca.2,200 pupils.

He was President of the Association of British Riding Schools (ABRS) for many years until 2002.

References