Charles Greenaway

{{Short description|British politician}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Leominster

|term_start = 25 July 1837

|term_end = 26 April 1845

|predecessor = Thomas Bish
Beaumont Hotham

|successor = George Arkwright
Henry Barkly

|alongside = George Arkwright (1842–1845)
James Wigram (1841–1842)
Beaumont Hotham (1837–1841)

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|death_date = 25 November 1859

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Charles Greenaway (died 25 November 1859){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "L" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons2.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=20 November 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120212235/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons2.htm |archivedate=20 November 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=4 September 2018 }} was a British Whig politician.{{cite book|first1=Edward|last1=Churton|author-link1=Edward Churton|title=The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838|date=1838|page=104|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVwEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA104 |via=Google Books |accessdate=16 November 2018}}{{cite news |title=Leominster |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001174/18370803/042/0004 |accessdate=16 November 2018 |work=Perthshire Courier |date=3 August 1837 |page=4 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite book

|last=Stooks Smith

|first=Henry.

|editor=Craig, F. W. S.

|title=The Parliaments of England

|origyear=1844-1850

|edition=2nd

|year=1973

|publisher=Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn=0-900178-13-2

|pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/142 142–144]

|url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/142

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Greenaway was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Leominster at the 1837 general election, and held the seat until 1845 when he resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=181}}{{cite book | title=Parliamentary papers | volume=62, Part 2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L1ETAAAAYAAJ| last1=House Of Commons | first1=Great Britain. Parliament | year=1878 }}