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SHAKESPEARE's LAW Except That, Judging from the Date of His Call to the Bar, I Gathered That He Is a Very The George Greenwood Collection The George Greenwood Collection by Sir George Greenwood, M.P. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Edited by Mark Andre Alexander Shakespeare’s Law and Latin Shakespeare’s Law Ben Jonson and Shakespeare The Stratford Bust and the Droeshout Engraving Appendixes © Copyright 2012 by Mark Andre Alexander Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Law: A Published by Mark Andre Alexander P.O. Box 5286, Auburn, CA 95604-5286 Journey through the History of the Argument by Mark Andre Alexander (2011) First Edition Originally published by 1858 to 1925. Shakespeare a Lawyer by William Rushton (1858) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data George Granville Greenwood, 1850-1928 Shakespeare’s Legal Acquirements by Lord The George Greenwood Collection / by George Campbell (1859) Granville Greenwood et al Ecclesiastical Law in Hamlet by R.S. p. cm. – Guernsey (1885) An Amazon.Com Kindle eBook Version 5_2 About the Editor/Author Formatted for iPad and other tablets. MarkAndreAlexander.Com 2 The George Greenwood Collection Preface Shakespearean Subjects and on the protection of Animals. Writing in the Sunday Times, 4th November In 1962, Sir George's daughter, Elsie 1928, Atticus says of him: Greenwood, wrote down memories of her He was an eager and an enthusiastic father in the Shakespearean Authorship soul. I have scarcely ever seen a face Review. [The editor.] which reflected so much goodness of * * * * * * * heart and eagerness of temperament. Sir George Greenwood (1850-1928) With his gleaming eyes, palpable eagerness and incessant enthusiasm By Elsie Greenwood were written in his face, his gestures GEORGE GRANVILLE GREENWOOD, and his acts. Three things mainly was the second son of John Greenwood, interested him in life: his Liberal Q.C., for many years Solicitor to the principles, his pity for animals, and Treasury. He was sent to Eton and was in his enthusiasm in the constant the “select” for the Newcastle scholarship. controversy over the authorship of Going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, as the Shakespeare plays. a foundation scholar, he took his degree with What was most delightful in him was a first class in the classical tripos in 1873. that keen, incessant, eager as was his Having been called to the Bar by the Middle advocacy of these three causes, he Temple in 1876, he joined the Western always put them forward with a Circuit. He married in 1878 Laura, daughter persuasive gentleness that demanded of Dr. Cumberbatch and had one soil and and obtained immediate attention. three daughters. And then in the midst of all these He contested Peterborough in 1876 and pursuits and of his life generally, ill Central Hull in 1900. In 1906 he won health came upon him in the shape of Peterborough for the Liberals and held it till chronic rheumatism. He had to walk December, 1915, when forced by with the assistance of a stick, and rheumatism to retire. He was knighted in had reluctantly to abandon his 1916. Parliamentary career. His country, My father was an ardent supporter of all never in my experience, produced a measures for the protection of animals, and more characteristic and a nobler was on the Council of the Royal Society for spirit. the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and To live with my father was truly a liberal was President of many similar societies. education in more than one sense; he, While he was in Parliament his consistent however, wore his learning lightly, and it vigilance and practical knowledge were of was delightful at meals to hear him break great service. out in a stanza from Shelley or Byron, or a He was one of the doughtiest fighters in the quotation from a Greek or Latin poet. He controversy over the authorship of the took with the greatest good-humour an Shakespeare plays and published many amount of chaff from his daughters that books on the subject. He was a frequent and would have shocked many a Victorian valued correspondent of The Times, both on parent. He had a very keen sense of humour and would amuse us by singing some absurd 3 The George Greenwood Collection old Victorian songs whose “perfect inanity afterwards and found him lying over his proved their insanity.” One of these songs writing table, half way through a letter on “Up in a Balloon” had a particularly catchy animal welfare. So he died as he would have air and I often found myself in after years wished, “in harness,” aged 78. singing or humming the chorus. A favourite * * * * * * * song was “Juanita” by Mrs. Norton, the great friend of Palmerston, and it is still one On November 6, 1922, Sir George of my “haunts.” But when he sang “The Greenwood, former Member of Parliament, Eton Boating Song” he looked ten years met with J. Thomas Looney, the author of younger and one could see he was back in Shakespeare Identified, and Colonel B. R. those happy memories of boyhood. Ward, father of B. M. Ward, the first biographer of Edward De Vere with The He used when an M.P. to entertain us and Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. The meeting his friends by amusing little personal was historic, for on that date these men anecdotes of life in Parliament. I found it founded the Shakespeare Fellowship to great fun being the daughter of an M.P., it ascertain the truth of the authorship of the got one past the red ropes, so to speak, and it Shakespeare poems and plays. Lt.-Colonel was most interesting meeting all the leading M. W. Douglas wrote about those days in political figures at the Downing Street The Shakespeare Fellowship News-Letter. Garden Parties and At Homes, to say [The editor.] nothing of being “presented” to King Edward VII and his lovely Queen * * * * * * * Alexandra. PRAETERITA My father's attitude to us and ours to him By Lt.-Colonel M. W. DOUGLAS, C.S.I., was more that of all elder brother than a C.I.E. parent, and. what was so delightful about him was the way in which he adopted the In recalling the beginnings of the wildest of our sagas, often about people not Shakespeare Fellowship, three distinguished personally known to him, as indeed in some men come to mind. Sir George Greenwood, cases they were not even known to us! He first President, and author of the gaily accepted with the greatest good Shakespeare Problem Restated and other humour the many and odd nicknames that volumes (1908-1925), in which he we bestowed upon him. But it was my two confounded the orthodox, and convinced the younger sisters who evolved the nickname interested and impartial, that the “Stratford that remained to the end and was known to rustic” was not “Shakespeare.” J. T. Looney, all our relations and friends. It was a name who, convinced by Greenwood, employed that as my mother said was very suitable as deductive reasoning, confirmed by “Grimeo” sounded so Shakespearean, and so unanswerable evidence, to identify the Poet we called him to the end of his days. in Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Colonel Ward's intellectual powers covered a varied When ill health due to lameness caused by range: he had also a wide circle of friends. rheumatism made him retire front In 1922 he read Shakespeare Identified by J. Parliamentary life he still came down to T. Looney, and Sous Le Masque de William breakfast, and on the last day he went into Shakespeare by Professor Le Franc. He his library afterwards to write letters. When found the case proved for Oxford as the I peeped in he was still writing so I went main author, in some collaboration with his away. My mother looked in shortly son-in-law, Lord Derby. The quest was 4 The George Greenwood Collection worth the toil, and Colonel Ward called a open mind as to the author. When accepting meeting on the 6th November, 1922, over office, he “hoped to be entering a period of which Sir George Greenwood presided. construction,” and we may reasonably Colonel Ward explained the results of his assume that the case for Oxford, as researches, and the need for collective presented in Shakespeare Identified and action. Sir George stated that, since his Eton Colonel Ward's Mr. W. H., impressed him. and Cambridge days, his works on Bacon and Oxford were doubtless among his Shakespeare had been destructive, but he “many pens,” and one or other was “the hoped he had now entered on a period of Master mind.” He considered that Shakspere construction. It was agreed that the Folio of Stratford under certain conditions was the work of “many pens and a Master (collaboration?) might have written plays, mind”; that Ben Jonson wrote the preface but never a sonnet. His name was in use as a signed by Heminge and Condell. pseudonym; he acted as agent for the It was resolved that the Shakespeare anonymous authors, and put their plays on Fellowship be founded to ascertain the truth, the stage. They became, or some of them, and unite in one brotherhood all those who Shakespearean plays. When, in 1928, Sir were dissatisfied with Stratford orthodoxy, George Greenwood died, Colonel Ward and who desired to see the principles of preferred to remain as Secretary and scientific historical criticism applied to the Treasurer, and I was elected President. problem of Shakespearean authorship. A * * * * * * * vote of thanks to Colonel Ward, the founder, was passed. The President was Sir George Greenwood, K.C.; Vice-Presidents: the Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, K.C.M.G., M.D.; Mr. W. T. Smedley (Baconians); Mr. L. T. Maxse (Editor National Review: Independent); Professor Abel Le Franc; Mr.
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