John Robert Greenway (born February 15, 1946) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for Ryedale. February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative & Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), and the largest in terms of public membership. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Ryedale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

John Greenway was born in Northwich, Cheshire and was educated locally at the Sir John Deane's Grammar School and The College of Law, London. He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, leaving the force in 1969 to sell life insurance for Equitable Life. He joined National Provident in 1970, before setting up his own insurance and finance company in 1971. Arms of Northwich Town Council Statistics Population: 19,259 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SJ651733 Administration District: Vale Royal Shire county: Cheshire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Cheshire Historic county: Cheshire Services Police force: Cheshire Fire and rescue: Cheshire Ambulance... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a... Sir John Deanes College is a sixth form college in Northwich, Cheshire, UK. It was formerly Sir John Deanes Grammar School, which was founded in 1557. ... The College of Law (CoL) is a registered charity in the United Kingdom which provides legal training for students and professionals. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Midland Bank (now part of HSBC) opened as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the Home Office police force responsible for Greater London, with the exception of the square mile of the City of London. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Hendon Police College is the principal training centre for the Metropolitan Police of London, England. ... The interior of Covent Garden Market in the West End The West End of London is an area of central London, containing many of the citys major tourist attractions, businesses, and administrative headquarters. ... Year 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Life insurance (life assurance in British English) is a contract between the policy owner and the insurer, where the insurer agrees to pay a sum of money upon the occurrence of the insureds death. ... Equitable Life (founded 1762) is a pension company in the United Kingdom. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

He was the treasurer of the Ryedale Conservative Association for two years from 1984 and was elected to the North Yorkshire County Council in 1985 for two years. He was the vice chairman of the North Yorkshire Police 1986-7. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 General Election, when he regained the seat for the Conservatives from the Liberal MP Elizabeth Shields who won the seat at the 1986 Ryedale by-election. Greenway won the seat with a majority of 9,740 and has remained the MP there since. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England in the United Kingdom, and a ceremonial county in that region and also partly in North East England. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... North Yorkshire Police is the police force covering the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and the unitary authority of York in northern England. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Margaret Thatcher Neil Kinnock David Steel Election 1987 Titles The United Kingdom general election of 1987 was held on 11 June 1987 and was the third consecutive victory for the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher. ... This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ... Elizabeth Lois Shields, née Teare, (born 27 February 1928) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. ... This is a list of UK by-elections, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. ...

He served in parliament as a member of the home affairs select committee 1987-97, and was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Jean Trumpington for a year from 1991. He was promoted to the frontbench by William Hague in 1997 as a spokesman on home affairs, before being moved in 2000 as a spokesman for culture, media and sport where he remained throughout the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith until he was sacked by Michael Howard in 2003. He was briefly a member of the education and skills select committee in 2005 before the general election. He is the chairman of the all party opera group. In 2003 he introduced the Ragwort Control Act.[1] The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, England is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) meet to conduct their business. ... The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo , or Small or Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. ... A Select Committee is a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues originating in the Westminster System of parliamentary democracy. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to British Government MPs to act as the Parliamentary contact of senior Ministers. ... Minister of State is a title borne by officials in certain countries governed under the parliamentary system. ... The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK government department, first created in September 1793 (relaunched in 1889) and called the Board of Agriculture. ... Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington, DCVO, PC (born October 23, 1922) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Jefferson Hague (born March 26, 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and current Shadow Foreign Secretary. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... DCMS Logo DCMS headquarters in Cockspur Street The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (sometimes abbreviated DCMS) is a department of the British government. ... Rt. ... The Rt Hon. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... Binomial name Senecio jacobaea L. Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) is a very common wild flower in the family Asteraceae that is found throughout Europe, usually in dry, open places, and has also been widely distributed as a weed elsewhere. ...

He has maintained a strong interest in the financial services sector and has chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance & Financial Services{http://www.appgifs.org.uk} since 1992.

In boundary changes agreed in 2006, Greenway's constituency was enlarged and renamed Thirsk and Malton, taking in a large part of the divided Vale of York constituency. Unexpectedly on 18 November 2006, the Thirsk and Malton Conservative Association selected Anne McIntosh (sitting MP for Vale of York) over Greenway as their candidate for the next general election. Thirsk and Malton will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Vale of York is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh (born 20 September 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...

He was married to Sylvia Ann Gant in 1974. They have two sons and a daughter. He now lives in London with divorcee Hanneke Dannhorn. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

A horse racing ethusiast, he won an animal welfare award in 2003, and is the president of York City F.C. As a former police officer he calls for the death penalty for police murders, specifically mentioning Winston Silcott. Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ... Animal welfare is the viewpoint that animals, especially those under human care, should not suffer unnecessarily, including where the animals are used for food, work, companionship, or research. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... York City Football Club are an English football club founded in 1922 and are based in York, North Yorkshire. ... A police officer is a person who works for a police force. ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... Winston Silcott was one of the Tottenham Three who were convicted in March 1987 of the murder of Police Constable Keith Blakelock on the night of 6 October 1985 during the Broadwater Farm riot in north London. ...

External links

• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: John Greenway MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - John Greenway MP
• The Public Whip - John Greenway MP voting record
• BBC News - John Greenway profile 10 February, 2005
• John Greenway MP – Conservative Party Profile