John Danforth Greenwood
{{Short description|New Zealand physician, newspaper editor and headmaster}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = John Danforth Greenwood
| image = Dr Geenwood 114519.jpg
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| caption =
| order = 4th Headmaster of Nelson College
| office =
| term_start = 1863
| term_end = 1865
| predecessor = Reginald Broughton
| successor = Charles Lendrick MacLean
| birth_name = John Danforth Greenwood
| birth_date = 4 January 1803
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = 15 June 1890
| death_place = Motueka, New Zealand
| spouse = {{marriage|Sarah Field|1831|1889|end=d.}}
| relatives = {{ubl|John Greenwood (grandfather)|Ellen Greenwood (daughter)|Jane Stowe (daughter)|{{nowrap|Elizabeth Greenwood (granddaughter)}}|John D. H. Greenwood (grandson)| Leonard Greenwood (grandson)|Averil Lysaght (great-granddaughter)|Mary Watt (great-granddaughter)}}
| children = 13
| resting_place = Pioneer Park, Motueka
}}
John Danforth Greenwood (1803–1890) was a New Zealand physician, newspaper editor, amateur painter and principal of Nelson College.{{Cite web |title=Greenwood, John Danforth, 1803–1890 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22360076 |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=natlib.govt.nz |archive-date=1 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101001059/https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22360076 |url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=https://collection.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/persons/M617/john-danforth-greenwood | title=John Danforth Greenwood | access-date=2024-01-01 | website=collection.nelsonmuseum.co.nz | archive-date=1 January 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101001102/https://collection.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/persons/M617/john-danforth-greenwood | url-status=live }}{{cite web|title=Sarah and John Danforth Greenwood|url=http://www.theprow.org.nz/people/sarah-and-john-danforth-greenwood/|website=www.theprow.org.nz|publisher=The Prow|accessdate=1 January 2024|archive-date=29 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129185109/https://www.theprow.org.nz/people/sarah-and-john-danforth-greenwood/|url-status=live}} His grandfather was the portrait painter John Greenwood.{{cite web | url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41241 | title=Mrs Humphrey Devereux Collections Online – Museum of New Zealand te Papa Tongarewa | accessdate=1 January 2024 | archive-date=26 December 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231226221623/https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41241 | url-status=live }}
Biography
John Danforth Greenwood was a physician, at Mitcham, Surrey.{{Cite book |last=Platts |first=Una |title=Nineteenth century New Zealand artists : a guide & handbook |date=1980 |publisher=Avon Fine Prints Limited |location=Christchurch |pages=112}} He married Sarah Field in 1831.{{DNZB|Paul|Janet|1g19|Sarah Greenwood|10 December 2011}} They had thirteen children, including Ellen Greenwood and Jane Greenwood.{{DNZB|title=Ellen Sarah Greenwood|first= Hilary|last= Stace|id=2g19|accessdate=23 April 2017}}{{Cite web |title=Stowe, (Mrs) Jane {{!}} NZETC |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d1136.html |access-date=2023-01-12 |website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz |archive-date=8 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230108010703/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d1136.html |url-status=live }} His daughter Frances Mary Greenwood married William Pharazyn (1842–1872) the son of Charles Johnson Pharazyn.{{Cite web |title=Pharazyn, Frances Mary, 1847–1927 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22394615 |access-date= 5 January 2024 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Pharazyn, William, 1842–1872 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22455210 |access-date=5 January 2024 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}
File:Portrait of John Danforth Greenwood, 1852, by Sarah Greenwood.jpg (1852)]]
He and his wife, Sarah, connected over art and music. Until ill-health forced his retirement in 1837, Danforth Greenwood continued his medical practice. The family then moved to Charenton-le-Pont, France. In 1842, they bought New Zealand Company sections in Wellington, Nelson and Motueka. He received free passage for himself and his family as ship's surgeon superintendent, on the Phoebe at Gravesend on 16 November 1842. In 1843, they settled in Motueka and built their house called "Woodlands."
They also lived in Nelson where he held roles such as justice of the peace, inspector of schools (1857 to 1863), board member of Nelson College (1855 to 1863) and headmaster of Nelson College (1863 to 1865).{{Cite news |date=8 February 1944 |title=Hundred Years Ago To-Day |volume=79 |pages=4 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19440208.2.55}}{{Cite news |date=16 June 1890 |title=Obituary |volume=XXIV |pages=2 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |issue=141 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM18900616.2.8 |access-date=1 January 2024 |archive-date=2 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202005905/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM18900616.2.8 |url-status=live }} He was editor of the Nelson Examiner for several years. He also was appointed Sergeant-at-Arms in the House of Representatives by the Speaker Sir David Monro from 1866 to 1871.
Greenwood died on 15 June 1890 in Motueka and was buried in Pioneer Park, Motueka.{{Cite news |date=17 June 1890 |title=Death |volume=XXXIII |pages=3 |work=Colonist |issue=5831 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18900617.2.4}}{{Cite web |title=Record ID 17333 |url=https://www.tasman.govt.nz/my-community/cemeteries/cemetery-search/ |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=www.tasman.govt.nz |archive-date=4 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604203731/https://www.tasman.govt.nz/my-community/cemeteries/cemetery-search/ |url-status=live }}
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