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'''William Pomeroy Crawford Greene''' (28 June 1884 – 10 May 1959)<ref name="rayment">{{cite web
| title = House of Commons constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5) | work = Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons5.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101231174353/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons5.htm | access-date = 20 April 2009 | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 31 December 2010 }}</ref> was an Australian-born English Conservative Party politician.
== Early life == Greene was born on 28 June 1884 at his parents' home Iandra in Greenethorpe, Weddin Shire, New South Wales, Australia, the son of George Henry Greene and his wife Ellen.<ref>{{cite news |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=New South Wales, Australia |issue=14,439 |page=1 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13559910 |via=National Library of Australia |date=7 July 1884 |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref>
Greene registered a coat of arms in 1908 with the Ulster King of Arms in Dublin. This coat of arms had been "borne and used by his family" for some time and can be described as on a blue shield three golden stags inside a gold border. Above the shield emerging from a gold coronet the head of a stag also gold, marked with a green shamrock on the neck. The Lain motto was "''Nec timeo nec sperno''" ("I neither fear nor despise").<ref name="nswshr-1723">{{cite NSW SHR|5051843|Iandra Homestead Pastoral Estate|hr=01723|fn=H04/00271|accessdate=2 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Copy of confirmation of arms to William Pomeroy Crawford Greene of Mount Oriel, Iandra, Greenthorpe, New South Wales, son of the Hon. George Henry Greene, M.L.C., of Mount Oriel, son of William Pomeroy Greene of Collon House, Co. Louth, and Victoria, Australia, Sept. 7, 1908 |publisher=National Library of Ireland |url=http://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_035915 |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref>
== Politics == At the 1923 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Worcester. He held the seat until he retired from politics at the 1945 election.<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{cite book
| title = British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 | edition = 3rd | last = Craig | first = F. W. S. | year = 1983 | author-link = F. W. S. Craig | orig-year = First published 1969 | publisher = Parliamentary Research Services | location = Chichester | page = 284 | isbn = 0-900178-06-X }}</ref>
In 1933, he flew with Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley from England to Australia.<ref>{{cite news |title=CRAWFORD GREENE REACHES AUSTRALIA |newspaper=The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser |location=New South Wales, Australia |volume=LXIII |issue=6715 |page=3 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112820969 |via=National Library of Australia |date=2 November 1933 |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref>
== Later life == Greene died on 10 May 1959 in The London Clinic. His estate was valued at £142,402.<ref>{{Cite web |title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1904/32858_605905_2343-00185?pid=12928915 |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref> He was buried with his parents and brother in their private cemetery at their home Iandra in Australia.<ref name="nswshr-1723" />
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = William Pomeroy Crawford Greene Achievement.png |escutcheon = Azure three bucks trippant Or a bordure of the last. |crest = Out of a ducal coronet a buck's head Or charged with a shamrock Proper. |lambrequin = Gules doubled Argent. |motto = Nec Timeo Nec Sperno |notes = Confirmed by Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms, 7 September 1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000529301 |publisher=National Library of Ireland |title=Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. J, |accessdate=1 September 2022}}</ref>}}
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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-william-greene | Crawford Greene}} * Who's Who in Australia 1950: [https://www.ancestry.com.au/interactive/1099/RHAUS1922A_078685-0321 entry for Greene, William Pomeroy Crawford]
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