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FREDERICK GREENWOOD (1830-19o9)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 555 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREDERICK See also:GREENWOOD (1830-19o9)  , See also:English journalist and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:April 183o . He was one of three See also:brothers—the others being See also:James and See also:Charles—who all gained reputation as journalists . See also:Frederick started See also:life in a See also:printing See also:house, but at an See also:early See also:age began to write in See also:periodicals . In 1853 he contributed a See also:sketch of See also:Napoleon III. to a See also:volume called The Napoleon See also:Dynasty (2nd ed., 1855) . He also wrote several novels: The Loves of an See also:Apothecary (1854), The Path of See also:Roses (1859) and (with his See also:brother James) Under a See also:Cloud (186o) . To the second number of the Cornhill See also:Magazine he contributed " An See also:Essay without End," and this led to an introduction to See also:Thackeray . In 1862, when Thackeray resigned the editorship of the Cornhill, See also:Greenwood became See also:joint editor with G . H . See also:Lewes . In 1864 he was appointed See also:sole editor, a See also:post which he held until 1868 . While at the Cornhill he wrote an See also:article in which he suggested, to some extent, how Thackeray might have intended to conclude his unfinished See also:work See also:Denis See also:Duval, and in its pages appeared See also:Margaret Denzil's See also:History, Greenwood's most ambitious work of fiction, published in volume See also:form in 1864 . At that See also:time Greenwood had conceived the See also:idea of an evening newspaper, which, while containing " all the See also:news proper to an evening See also:journal," should, for the most See also:part, be made up " of See also:original articles upon the many things which engage the thoughts, or employ the energies, or amuse the leisure of mankind." Public affairs, literature and See also:art, " and all the influences which strengthen or dissipate society " were to be discussed by men whose See also:independence and authority were equally unquestionable .

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Canning's See also:Anti-Jacobin and the Saturday See also:Review of 1864 were the joint See also:models Greenwood had before him . The idea was taken up by Mr See also:George See also:Smith, and the See also:Pall Mall See also:Gazette (so named after Thackeray's imaginary See also:paper in Pendennis) was launched in See also:February 1865, with Greenwood as editor . Within a few years he had come to exercise a See also:great See also:influence on public affairs . His views somewhat rapidly ripened from what was described as philosophic Liberal-ism into Conservatism . No See also:minister in Great See also:Britain, Mr See also:Gladstone declared, ever had a more able, a more zealous, a more effective supporter for his policy than See also:Lord See also:Beaconsfield See also:observatory . See also:Greenwich See also:Hospital, as it is still called, became in 1873 a Royal See also:Naval See also:College . Upon it or its site centre nearly all the See also:historical associations of the See also:place . The See also:noble buildings, contrasting strangely with the wharves adjacent and opposite to it, make a striking picture, See also:standing on the See also:low See also:river-See also:bank with a background formed by the wooded See also:elevation of Greenwich See also:Park . They occupy the site of an See also:ancient royal See also:palace called Greenwich House, which was a favourite royal See also:residence as early as 1300, but was granted by See also:Henry V. to See also:Thomas See also:Beaufort, See also:duke of See also:Exeter, from whom it passed to See also:Humphrey, duke of See also:Gloucester, who largely improved the See also:property and named it Placentia . It did not revert to the See also:crown till his See also:death in 1447 . It was the birthplace of Henry VIII., See also:Queen See also:Mary and Queen See also:Elizabeth, and here See also:Edward VI. died . The See also:building was enlarged by Edward IV., by Henry VIII., who made it one of his See also:chief residences, by James I. and by Charles I., who erected the " Queen's House " for Henrietta Maria .

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tenure of See also:land from the. crown " as of the See also:manor of See also:East Greenwich " became at this time a recognized See also:formula, and occurs in a See also:succession of See also:American colonial charters from those of See also:Virginia in 16o6, 1609 and 1612 to that of New See also:Jersey in 1674 . Along with other royal palaces Greenwich was at the Revolution appropriated by the See also:Protector, but it reverted to the crown on the restoration of Charles II., by whom it was pulled down, and the See also:west wing of the See also:present hospital was erected as part of an extensive See also:design which was not further carried out . In its unfinished See also:state it was assigned by the patent of See also:William and Mary to certain of the great See also:officers of state, as commissioners for its See also:conversion into a hospital for See also:seamen; and it was opened as such in 1705 . The building consists of four blocks . Behind a See also:terrace 86o ft. in length, stretching along the river See also:side, are the buildings erected in the time of Charles II. from Inigo See also:Jones's designs, and in that of Queen See also:Anne from designs by See also:Sir See also:Christopher See also:Wren; and behind these buildings are on the west those of See also:King William and on the east those of Queen Mary, both from Wren's designs . In the King William range is the painted See also:hall . Here in 18o6 the remains of See also:Nelson See also:lay in state before their See also:burial in St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral . Its walls and See also:ceiling were painted by Sir James See also:Thornhill with various emblematic devices, and it is hung with portraits of the most distinguished admirals and paintings of the chief naval battles of See also:England . In the Queen Anne range is the Royal Naval Museum, containing models, See also:relics of Nelson and of See also:Franklin, and other See also:objects . In the centre of the See also:principal quadrangle of the hospital there is a statue of George II. by Rysbrack, sculptured out of a single See also:block of See also:marble taken from the See also:French by See also:Admiral Sir George See also:Rooke . In the upper quadrangle is a bust of Nelson by See also:Chantrey, and there are various other memorials and relics . The See also:oldest part of the building was in some measure rebuilt in 1811, and the present See also:chapel was erected to replace one destroyed by See also:fire in 1779 .

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The endowments of the hospital were increased at various periods from bequests and forfeited estates . Formerly 2700 retired seamen were boarded within it, and 5000 or 6oco others, called out-pensioners, received stipends at various rates out of its funds; but in 1865 an See also:

act was passed empowering the See also:Admiralty to See also:grant liberal See also:pensions in lieu of See also:food and lodging to such of the inmates as were willing to quit the hospital, and in 1869 another act was passed making their leaving on these conditions compulsory . It was then devoted to the See also:accommodation of the students of the Royal Naval College, the Infirmary being granted to the Seamen's Hospital Society . Behind the College is the Royal Hospital School, where woo boys, sons of See also:petty officers and seamen, are boarded . To the See also:south of the hospital is Greenwich Park (185 acres); lying high, and commanding extensive views over See also:London, the See also:Thames and the See also:plain of See also:Essex . It was enclosed by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and laid out by Charles II., and contains a See also:fine See also:avenue of See also:Spanish chestnuts planted in his time . In it is situated the Royal Observatory, built in 1675 for the See also:advancement of See also:navigation and nautical See also:astronomy . From it the exact time is conveyed each See also:day at one o'See also:clock by electric See also:signal to had in Greenwood . It was on the See also:suggestion of Greenwood that Beaconsfield See also:purchased in 1875 the See also:Suez See also:Canal shares of the See also:Khedive See also:Ismail; the See also:British See also:government being ignorant, until informed by Greenwood, that the shares were for See also:sale and likely to be bought by See also:France . It was characteristic of Greenwood that he declined to publish the news of the See also:purchase of the shares in the Pall Mall before the See also:official announcement was made . Early in 188o the Pall Mall changed owners, and the new proprietor required it to support Liberal policy . Greenwood at once resigned his editorship, but in May a new paper, the St James's Gazette, was started for him by Mr Henry Hucks See also:Gibbs (afterwards Lord Aldenham), and Greenwood proceeded to carry on in it the tradition which he had established in the Pall Mall .

At the St James's Greenwood remained for over eight years, continuing to exercise a marked influence upon See also:

political affairs, notably as a pungent critic of the Gladstone See also:administration (188o–1885) and an See also:independent supporter of Lord See also:Salisbury . His connexion with the paper ceased in See also:August 1888, owing to disagreements with the new proprietor, Mr E . Steinkopff, who had bought the St James's at Greenwood's own suggestion . In See also:January 1891 Greenwood brought out a weekly review which he named the Anti-Jacobin . It failed, however, to gain public support, the last number appearing in January 1892 . In 1893 he published The See also:Lover's See also:Lexicon and in 1894 See also:Imagination in Dreams . He continued to See also:express his views on political and social questions in contributions to See also:newspapers and magazines, See also:writing frequently in the See also:Westminster Gazette, the Pall Mall, See also:Blackwood, the Cornhill, &c . Towards the end of his life his political views reverted in some respects to the Liberalism of his early days . In the words of George See also:Meredith " Greenwood was not only a great journalist, he had a statesman's See also:head . The See also:national interests were always urgent at his See also:heart." He was remarkable for securing for his papers the services of the ablest writers of the day, and for the See also:gift of recognizing merit in new writers, such, for instance, as See also:Richard Jeffries and J . M . See also:Barrie .

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instinct for capacity in others was as sure as was his journalistic See also:judgment . In 1905, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, a See also:dinner was given in his See also:honour by leading statesmen, journalists, and men of letters (with See also:John See also:Morley—who had succeeded him as editor of the Pall Mall—in the See also:chair) . In May 1907 he contributed to Blackwood an article on " The New Journalism," in which he See also:drew a See also:sharp contrast between the old and the new conditions under which the work of a newspaper writer is See also:con-ducted . He died at See also:Sydenham on the 14th of See also:December 1909 . See Honouring Frederick Greenwood, being a See also:report of the speeches at the dinner on the 8th of April 1905 (London, privately printed, 1905); " See also:Birth and See also:Infancy of the Pall Mall Gazette," an article contributed by Greenwood to the Pall Mall of the 14th of April 1897; " The Blowing of the See also:Trumpet " in the introduction to the St James's (May 31, 1880); obituary notices in the See also:Athenaeum (Dec . 25, 1909) and The Times (Dec . 17, 1909) .

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