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Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Baron Greenway
, of
Stanbridge Earls
in the County of
Southampton
,
[1]
is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
. It was created in 1927 for
Sir Charles Greenway, 1st Baronet
, one of the founders of the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
. He had already been created a
Baronet
, of
Stanbridge Earls
in the County of Southampton, in 1919.
[2]
As of 2017
[update]
the titles are held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1975. Lord Greenway is one of the
ninety elected hereditary peers
that remain in the
House of Lords
after the passing of the
House of Lords Act 1999
, and sits as a cross-bencher.
Barons Greenway (1927)
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The
heir presumptive
is the present holder's nephew Nicholas Walter Paul Greenway (b. 1988).
Coat of arms of Baron Greenway
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- Crest
- A griffin’s head Or erased Gules holding in the beak an anchor Sable.
- Escutcheon
- Per pale Ermine and Ermines on a chief Azure a crescent between two covered cups Or.
- Supporters
- On either side a griffin Sable beak and claws Or holding in the beak an anchor and charged on the shoulder with a covered cup Gold.
- Motto
- Labore Et Honore (Industry And Honour)
[3]
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References
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- ^
London Gazette no. 33241. p. 434
- ^
London Gazette no. 31427. p. 8221
- ^
Debrett's Peerage
. 1973.
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