Thomas Michael Greenhow

{{short description|British doctor (1792–1881)}}

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Thomas Michael Greenhow MD MRCS FRCS (5 July 1792 – 25 October 1881) was an English surgeon and epidemiologist.

Career

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File:John Snow (cropped).jpg's anaesthetist, John Snow (above) undertook "dedicated research" on the cholera pandemics of the Victorian era{{cite news |last1=Tominey |first1=Camilla |title=The Duchess of Cambridge's Ancestor Would Have Led The Fight Against Covid 19 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=Greenhow%20Middleton%20&languages=en&groupBy=Language&hideSimilar=0&type=1&state=1 |accessdate=28 June 2020 |agency=PressReader |location=UK |work=Daily Telegraph| page =25|date=28 May 2020|quote=Based in Tynemouth, near Newcastle, Dr Greenhow, his nephew Dr EH Greenhow and Dr John Snow were founding members of the Royal Society of Medicine's Epidemiological Society in the 1850s, where emergency talks were held regarding the cholera pandemic...The dedicated research of [T.M. Greenhow] saw the London cholera epidemic end in 1854... Dr Snow was Dr Greenhow's former surgery apprentice and Queen Victoria's personal anaesthetist...}}]]

Greenhow was the second son of Edward Martin Greenhow, an army surgeon from North Shields. He was a medical graduate of the University of Edinburgh and became MRCS (London) in 1814,{{cite web |title=Royal College of Surgeons - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: Greenhow, Thomas Michael (1792 - 1881) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002f374231/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002048%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |publisher=Royal College of Surgeons | year= 2016 |accessdate=4 July 2019 |quote=Titles/Qualifications:MRCS August 5th 1814}}{{cite book |title=The Monthly Chronicle of... |date=1891 |page=251 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJsrAAAAMAAJ&dq=edward+martin++greenhow&pg=PA251 |access-date=11 February 2023}}{{cite web |title=Newcastle Medical Journal: The Journal of the Newcastle Upon Tyne and Northern Counties Medical Society, Volume 25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IokIAQAAIAAJ&q=Thomas+Michael+Greenhow+++(London)++1814 |publisher=The Society|year= 1956 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |quote=Thomas Michael Greenhow (1792–1881) He was educated at Edinburgh University and became M.R.C.S. (London) in 1814}} having been a surgery student at London's Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals.{{cite book |last1=Knight |first1=C. |title=London, Volumes 5-6 |date=1843 |publisher=C. Knight & Company |page=376 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjgQAAAAYAAJ&q=surgery+school++at++guy%27s+hospital+london&pg=PA376 |accessdate=26 March 2019 |quote=The importance of the great London Hospitals as schools of medicine is well known. ... From 1760 to 1825 the schools of surgery of St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals were united, and the fees paid by....}}{{cite web |title=Newcastle Medical Journal: The Journal of the Newcastle Upon Tyne and Northern Counties Medical Society, Volume 25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IokIAQAAIAAJ&q=Thomas+Michael+Greenhow+++(London)++1814 |publisher=The Society|year= 1956 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |quote=Thomas Michael Greenhow (1792–1881) (Fig. 4) was born on 5th July, 1792, the son of Edward M. Greenhow, army surgeon, who had served under General Elliott during the siege of Gibraltar and who later practised at North Shields, Tynemouth. He was educated at Edinburgh University and became M.R.C.S. (London) in 1814, [...up until 1825....paid for training invariably at London's Borough Hospitals (The Borough hospitals of St Thomas's and Guy's cooperated for many years as the 'United Hospitals' - E. McInnes "St. Thomas' Hospital", 1963 - Page 86") combined with tuition at private establishments which was the practice for...]}}

Greenhow spent much of his working life in Newcastle. He and fellow surgeon Sir John Fife are recorded together in 1827 as being Eminent Persons of Newcastle and Gateshead.{{cite web |last1=Parson |first1=W. |title=History, directory, and gazetteer of the counties of Durham and Northumberland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAsHAAAAQAAJ&q=eminent++men++greenhow++john+fife&pg=PR5 |publisher=W. Parson |year= 1827 |accessdate=6 February 2019 |page=V}} Greenhow's surgical inventions were heralded by London surgeons in the 1830s.{{cite web |title=The Medical Quarterly Review |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-0EAAAAQAAJ&q=MRCS+%28London%29++Greenhow&pg=PA153 |publisher=Oxford University |year= 1834 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |page=153 |quote=A dozen eminent London surgeons "have much pleasure in examining" the apparatus of Mr T. M. Greenhow M.R.C.S. London, 1833 pp22...}} Debrett's records that Greenhow was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, having become, in 1843, one of the original 300 fellows.{{cite web |last1=Mair |first1=R. |title=Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irQTAAAAYAAJ&q=thomas++greenhow++durham++university |publisher=Dean & son|year= 1896 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |quote=William Thomas Greenhow, son of the late T. M. Greenhow, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., of .....}}{{cite web |author= |title=Thomas Michael Greenhow |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002f336531/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002048%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |year=2015|publisher= The Royal College of Surgeons of England |accessdate=5 February 2019}}{{cite web |title=The Durham University Journal, Volume 87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkAeW7s-oOoC&q=original++300++fellows++surgeons++royal++Thomas++Greenhow |publisher=University of Durham|year= 1995 |accessdate=5 February 2019}}

Greenhow worked in all areas of surgery and had a particular interest in obstetrics{{cite web |title=Royal College of Surgeons - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: Greenhow, Thomas Michael (1792 - 1881) |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002f374231/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002048%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |publisher=Royal College of Surgeons | year= 2016 |accessdate=4 July 2019 |quote=....was soon appointed Surgeon to the Lying-in Hospital, where he acquired much obstetrical experience.}} and gynaecology; in 1845, he controversially published detailed accounts regarding his views on the gynaecological status of Harriet Martineau, who was both his patient and sister-in-law.{{cite book |last1=Hoecker-Drysdale |first1=Susan |title=Harriet Martineau, first woman sociologist |date=1992 |publisher=Berg |isbn=9780854966455 |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-a1AAAAIAAJ&q=gynecology+thomas+michael+Greenhow |accessdate=6 February 2019 }}{{cite book |last1=Easley |first1=A. |title=Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6W4gpo-Nv8UC&q=gynecology+harriet++martineau++thomas+michael+Greenhow&pg=PA160 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date= 29 April 2011 |accessdate=6 February 2019 |pages=160 |quote=Martineau's brother-in-law and physician Thomas Greenhow published a pamphlet titled "Medical Report of the Case of Miss Harriet Martineau (1845) ....he publicized the details of her gynecological symptoms in grotesquely graphic terms...|isbn=9781611490169 }}

Greenhow was a pioneer in the establishment of the Durham University and in 1855 was a lecturer at the Newcastle's Medical College, in connection with Durham University.{{cite web |title=The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OJ0OAAAAQAAJ&q=thomas++michael++Greenhow++lecturer+durham |publisher=Oxford University |year= 1855 |accessdate=18 March 2018 |quote=Lecturer in Medical Ethics: Thomas Michael Greenhow – The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne College of Medicine in connexion with the University of Durham (November 13th, 1855)}} He and Sir John Fife founded what would become the Newcastle University College of Medicine.{{cite journal |title=Thomas Michael Greenhow |journal=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002f336531/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002048%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |accessdate=12 February 2019|year= 2015 |publisher= The Royal College of Surgeons of England |quote=(Greenhow) was appointed Surgeon to the Lying-in Hospital, where he acquired much obstetrical experience.}} The two men also founded Newcastle's Eye Infirmary.{{cite web|last=Bettany|first=G. T.|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |title=Fife, Sir John (1795–1871), surgeon and politician|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/9/101009416/|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=19 July 2013}}{{cite web|last=Gosden|first=Peter|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|title=Lupton [née Greenhow], Frances Elizabeth (1821–1892), educationist|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/53/101053013/|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=19 July 2013}} Greenhow worked as the senior surgeon at the Newcastle Infirmary, later renamed the Royal Victoria Infirmary, for many years and was instrumental in its expansion in the 1850s. While working there, he trained John Snow.{{cite book |last1=Brody |first1=H. |title=Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6HmCwAAQBAJ&q=john++snow++thomas+greenhow++senior+surgeon&pg=PA30 |publisher=Oxford University Press|year= 2003 |accessdate=18 March 2018 |pages=30|isbn=9780195135442 }}{{cite web |last1=Vinten-Johansen |first1=P. |title=Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine : A Life of John Snow |url=https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/Medical/texts/Cholera%2C%20Chloroform%20and%20the%20Science%20of%20Medicine%20-%20A%20Life%20of%20John%20Snow%20-%20P.%20Vinten-Johanssen%2C%20et%20al.%2C%20%28Oxford%2C%202003%29%20WW.pdf |accessdate=18 March 2017 |quote=(page 30) The senior surgeon was Thomas Michael Greenhow who was also the surgeon at the Lying-in-Hospital, where (John) Snow's .....}} Greenhow and Snow both advocated for the usage of chloroform when performing major surgery and undertook "dedicated research" to end the London cholera pandemic.{{cite news |last1=Tominey |first1=Camilla |title=The Duchess of Cambridge's Ancestor Would Have Led The Fight Against Covid 19 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=Greenhow%20Middleton%20&languages=en&groupBy=Language&hideSimilar=0&type=1&state=1 |accessdate=28 June 2020 |agency=PressReader |location=UK |work=Daily Telegraph| page =25|date=28 May 2020|quote=Based in Tynemouth, near Newcastle, Dr Greenhow, his nephew Dr EH Greenhow and Dr John Snow were founding members of the Royal Society of Medicine's Epidemiological Society in the 1850s, where emergency talks were held regarding the cholera pandemic...The dedicated research of [T.M. Greenhow] saw the London cholera epidemic end in 1854... Dr Snow was Dr Greenhow's former surgery apprentice and Queen Victoria's personal anaesthetist...}} Greenhow's son, surgeon Henry Martineau Greenhow, reported in The Lancet his father's surgical success involving chloroform.{{cite web |last1=Greenhow |first1=Henry Martineau |title=Case in Surgery, Having Been Placed Under The Influence Of Chloroform – The Lancet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5RMAQAAMAAJ&q=T+M+greenhow+chloroform&pg=PA29 |publisher=J. Onwhyn|date= 14 July 1849 |accessdate=18 March 2018 |page=29}}

Greenhow and his nephew, physician Edward Headlam Greenhow, undertook much research into medical hygiene and public health, publishing papers throughout the 1850s warning of further impending cholera pandemics.{{cite web |last1=Greenhow |first1=E. H. |title=Cholera in Tynemouth (1831–32) .....The London Lancet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iUgAQAAMAAJ&q=snow+greenhow++cholera&pg=PA438 |publisher=Burgess, Stringer & Company |year= 1855 |accessdate=16 April 2019 |page=438}}{{cite web |last1=Greenhow |first1=Thomas M. |title=Cholera from the east. A letter [paper] addressed to Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne James Hodgson, etc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXI5g_HdIfIC&q=snow++john+ |publisher=E. Charnley|year= 1852 |accessdate=16 April 2019}} The archives of King's College London hold an 1866 letter from E. H. Greenhow concerning the 1849 cholera breakout in Manchester, with which both men were greatly involved.{{cite web |last1=Brockington |first1=F. |title=Public health in the nineteenth century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KU9rAAAAMAAJ&q=His+interest+in+public+health+may+have+been+acquired+from+his+uncle,+Thomas+Michael+Greenhow+(1791-1881),+with+whom+he+had+... |publisher=E. & S. Livingstone|year= 1965 |accessdate=12 March 2018 |page=241 |quote=...After his (Edward Headlam Greenhow) early education in schools in North Shields he (E H. Greenhow) was apprenticed to his grandfather, Edward Martin Greenhow, ... his studies at Montpelier before joining his father's practice at Tynemouth in 1835; here he was to remain for 18 years....His interest in public health may have been acquired from his uncle, Thomas Michael Greenhow (1791–1881), with whom he had experience of cholera at its first visit to England in 1831}}{{cite web |title=Letter from E. Headlam Greenhow (1814–1888), Apr 1866 relating to a 1849 report on cholera – College Archives » The Collection – |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/?f=S |publisher= King's College London |year=2019 |accessdate=19 March 2018 |quote=Letters to Sir John Simon, from Joseph Henry Green, [1850]; and letter from E. Headlam Greenhow (1814–1888), Apr 1866 relating to a 1849 report on cholera...}}{{cite journal |title=Thomas Michael Greenhow |journal=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002f336531/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002048%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |accessdate=12 February 2019 |publisher= The Royal College of Surgeons of England |year=2015|quote= (Greenhow studied) at the University of Edinburgh....(Greenhow) worked assiduously during the cholera epidemic of 1832, and published his views on the disease at some length.}}{{cite web |title=Cholera Online, 1817 to 1900" "Disease Outbreaks" – History of the cholera in Manchester, in 1849: as reported to the Registrar ..... Author(s): Greenhow, T. M. (Thomas Michael), 1791–1881 |url=https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/?f%5Bdrep2.isMemberOfCollection%5D%5B%5D=DREPCHOL&f%5Bdrep2.subjectAggregate%5D%5B%5D=Disease+Outbreaks&per_page=100 |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine |accessdate=12 March 2017 |quote=History of the cholera in Manchester, in 1849: as reported to the Registrar ..... Author(s): Greenhow, T. M. (Thomas Michael), 1791–1881; Publication: ...}} The Lancet records that at a meeting in 1855 of the Epidemiological Society of London, John Snow responded to a paper being read out by Edward Headlam Greenhow in which the research of his uncle, Thomas Michael Greenhow, concerning the 1831–32 cholera epidemic in Tynemouth was outlined.{{cite web |first=E. Headlam |last=Greenhow |title=The London Lancet – Epidemiological Society, paper read by E. Headlam Greenhow on the cholera [epidemic] in Tynemouth (1831–32).... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iUgAQAAMAAJ&q=snow+greenhow++cholera&pg=PA438 |publisher=Burgess, Stringer & Company|year= 1855 |page=438 |quote=Dr Snow said that the remarks of Dr Greenhow...}} On 6 May 1856, Thomas Greenhow delivered a lecture on this topic at his alma mater, St Thomas' Hospital, where Snow was working as an anaesthetist.{{cite book |last1=Hart |first1=J. |title=The National CV of Britain: A non-PC history of Britain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6wwkmvRxGoC&q=John++snow++St++Thomas%27s++hospital&pg=PT120 |publisher=Edfu books |isbn=9781905815616 |accessdate=19 March 2019 |quote=Anaeshesia – 1847 saw the full-time anaesthetist John Snow at St Thomas's Hospital}}{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=D. |title=Water-Supply and Public Health Engineering |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgkkDwAAQBAJ&q=t++m++Greenhow++john++snow++cholera&pg=PT53 |publisher=Routledge|date= 15 May 2017 |isbn=9781351873550 |accessdate=18 March 2018 |quote=St Thomas' Hospital in London was the first to establish a lectureship on Public Health ....The first appointment was Dr T. M. Greenhow who gave his first lecture on 6 May 1856....}} In October 1856, Edward Headlam Greenhow became Lecturer on Public Health at St Thomas'.{{cite web |title=Association medical journal: 1856 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BhZAAAAAcAAJ&q=lecturer++March++1856++T++M++Greenhow++thomas%27s&pg=PA918 |publisher=Provincial Medical and Surgical Association |year=1856 |accessdate=18 March 2018 |page=918 |quote=25 October 1856 – GREENHOW Edward Headlam, lecturer on public health at St Thomas' Hospital}}{{cite journal |last1=Greenhow |first1=Thomas Michael |title=Dislocation of the Hip-Joint – Reduced under the Influence of Chloroform. T. M. Greenhow, September 1, 1849 |journal=Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal |volume=13 |issue=21 |page=569|pmc=2488132 |year=1849 }}

Thomas Greenhow retired to Leeds in 1860, dying there on 25 October 1881 at Newton Hall.{{cite web|title=Newcastle Infirmary Time Line 1801–1849|url=http://research.ncl.ac.uk/nsa/tl2.htm|publisher=Newcastle University|accessdate=19 July 2013|quote=1832: Thomas Greenhow appointed honorary surgeon to the Infirmary. He had already been surgeon to the lying-in hospital, and in 1822 had established the Eye Infirmary with John Fife.}}{{cite web|title=Newcastle Infirmary Time Line 1850–1888|url=http://research.ncl.ac.uk/nsa/tl3.htm|publisher=Newcastle University|accessdate=19 July 2013}}{{cite journal |last1=Greenhow |first1=Thomas Michael |title=Chloroform |journal=The British Medical Journal |volume=1 |issue=277 |date= 21 April 1866 |pages= 427–429|jstor=25205580 }}{{cite web |last1=Greenhow |first1=E. H. |title=Cholera in Tynemouth (1831–32) .....The London Lancet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iUgAQAAMAAJ&q=snow+greenhow++cholera&pg=PA438 |publisher=Burgess, Stringer & Company |year= 1855 |accessdate=16 April 2019 |page=438}}

Family

Greenhow's first wife was Elizabeth Martineau (1794–1850), who succumbed to tuberculosis after producing four children.{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Greenhow (Martineau) |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Greenhow/6000000006705591669 |website=Geni.com |accessdate=15 March 2019}} She was a daughter of Thomas Martineau and Elizabeth Rankin, of the prosperous, socially reformist Martineau family, mainly based in Birmingham. His wife's siblings included the religious philosopher James Martineau and the sociologist and political theorist Harriet Martineau.{{cite web |author=|title=Thomas Michael Greenhow |url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002f336531/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E002048%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier |year=2015|publisher= The Royal College of Surgeons of England |accessdate=5 February 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Reitwiesner |first1=W. A. |title=Ancestry of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge |url=http://www.wargs.com/royal/kate.html |publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society |date= April 2011 |accessdate=6 February 2019}} Greenhow's sister Sarah (1801–1891) married George Martineau (1792–1857), cousin of his wife Elizabeth.{{Cite book |last=Fox-Davies |first=Arthur Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ag_T4xSCw-oC&q=george+martineau+sarah+greenhow&dq=george+martineau+sarah+greenhow&hl=ja&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJ-9a0juyKAxWfr1YBHR_uHH0Q6AF6BAgNEAM#george%20martineau%20sarah%20greenhow |title=Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority |date=1902 |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack |language=en}}

Greenhow's first child and only daughter, Frances, was born in 1821. She married into the Lupton family of Leeds, wealthy wool manufacturers and Unitarians, a branch of English Dissenters. She worked to open up educational opportunities for women, and, more prominently, their access to universities.{{cite web|last=Gosden|first=Peter|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|title=Lupton [née Greenhow], Frances Elizabeth (1821–1892), educationist|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/53/101053013/|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=19 July 2013}} Her eldest son's first daughter was Olive Christiana Middleton (née Lupton), the great-grandmother of Catherine, Princess of Wales.{{cite news |last1=Tominey |first1=Camilla |title=The Duchess of Cambridge's Ancestor Would Have Led The Fight Against Covid 19 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=Greenhow%20Middleton%20&languages=en&groupBy=Language&hideSimilar=0&type=1&state=1 |accessdate=28 June 2020 |agency=PressReader |location=UK |work=Daily Telegraph| page =25|date=28 May 2020}}

Greenhow's first son and second child, Edward Meadows Greenhow, (1822–1840) died at the age of 18. His second son, Henry Martineau Greenhow (1829 1912), followed his father into medicine. He studied at University College London, and by 1854, he was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.{{cite web |last1=Moulds |first1=A. |title=Henry Martineau Greenhow (1829–1912) |url=https://conscicom.org/2018/06/15/henry-martineau-greenhow-1829-1912/ |work=Victorian Periodicals and Scientists |year=2018 |accessdate=14 March 2018}} He joined the Indian Medical Service spending his entire career in British India, and rising to surgeon major.{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=W. |title=The Court Journal and Fashionable Gazette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1VcG8C2nbv4C&q=thomas++Greenhow++fife++queen++victoria&pg=PA263 |publisher=William Thomas|year= 1859 |accessdate=15 March 2019 |pages=262–263}}Entry in Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, a biographical register of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, written by its librarian Victor Plarr (1863–1929), and hosted by the College [http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002047b.htm] He married Jessie, daughter of Thomas Lombe Taylor.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALlXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA426&dq=T+Lombe+Taylor+Greenhow&hl=ja&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2l_id4IeLAxW_cfUHHWT4G38Q6AF6BAgKEAM |title=Medical Times |date=1871 |publisher=J. & A. Churchill |language=en}} Their son Wilfred Harry Greenhow (1872–1950) went to Marlborough College and Exeter college, Oxford MA.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQZRAQAAIAAJ&q=wilfred+harry+greenhow+%C2%A0Regr+County+Court+Leeds+1910&dq=wilfred+harry+greenhow+%C2%A0Regr+County+Court+Leeds+1910&hl=ja&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja1sqNrMSMAxU-bfUHHTVpK5cQ6AF6BAgHEAM#wilfred%20harry%20greenhow%20%C2%A0Regr%20County%20Court%20Leeds |title=The Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter |date=1910 |publisher=Alexander and Shepheard, printers |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=College |first=Marlborough |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_fltrlsDDi8C&q=wilfred+harry+greenhow+%C2%A0Regr+County+Court+Leeds+1910&dq=wilfred+harry+greenhow+%C2%A0Regr+County+Court+Leeds+1910&hl=ja&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja1sqNrMSMAxU-bfUHHTVpK5cQ6AF6BAgGEAM#wilfred%20harry%20greenhow%20%C2%A0Regr%20County%20Court%20Leeds%201910 |title=Marlborough College Register: 1843-1952 |last2=James |first2=L. Warwick |date=1952 |publisher=The College |language=en}} Wilfred‘s daughter Anita Diana (1917–1991) married Walter Julian Algernon Boyle, grandson of Henry Boyle 5th Earl Shannon.{{Cite web |title=Online Catalogue for Westminster School's Archive & Collections |url=https://collections.westminster.org.uk/index.php/boyle-walter-julian-algernon-1918-1994}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InoHD0N_Jp0C&pg=PA2139&dq=walter+julian+argernon+boyle&hl=ja&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi40qupqcSMAxWAh68BHc8jBSwQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=walter%20julian%20argernon%20boyle&f=false |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1934 |language=en}} Greenhow's third and youngest son, Judge William Thomas Greenhow (1831–1921) received his Bachelor of Laws at Somerset House at King's College London in 1853.{{cite web |last1=Cassell |first1=J. |title=The Popular Educator, Volume 3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xF_BIl4thRkC&q=king%27s+college+guy%27s+st+thomas+Greenhow&pg=PA116 |publisher=John Cassell|year= 1853 |accessdate=13 March 2017 |page=116 |quote=On the 4th May, 1853, the ceremony took place in the large hall of King's College, Somerset House...}}{{cite web |last1=Mair |first1=R. |title=Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irQTAAAAYAAJ&q=His+++Hon++Judge++Greehow |publisher=Dean & son|year= 1896 |accessdate=14 March 2018 |page=354 |quote=HIS HONOUR JUDGE GREENHOW. William Thomas Greenhow, son of the late T. M. Greenhow, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., of Chapel Allerton, Leeds, and formerly .......His Honour Judge (W.T.) Greenhow....}} He married Marion, eldest daughter of Charles Martineau. They had a daughter, Mabel.

In 1854 at Leeds' Mill Hill Chapel, Greenhow married his second wife, Anne (1812–1905), daughter of William Lupton, the father-in-law of Greenhow's daughter Frances Lupton.{{cite web |title=Weddings...At Mill Hill Chapel, Thomas Michael Greenhow, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Anne, 2nd daughter of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of Leeds. |url=https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=thomas%20%20michael%20%20greenhow&county=yorkshire%2c%20england&from=1820&to=1883 |newspaper=Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England |date= 3 June 1854 |accessdate=6 February 2019}}{{cite book |title=British Medical Journal, Volume 2 |date=1881 |publisher=British Medical Association |page=799 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okUjmPs5wqsC&q=Thomas+Michael+Greenhow+Newton+Hall+1881 |accessdate=1 February 2019}}

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Further reading

  • http://www.wargs.com/other/middleton.html
  • {{cite web |title=We Are Amused |url=https://www.ndfhs.org.uk/ |publisher=Northumberland & Durham Family History Society Journal |accessdate=28 June 2020 |pages=82–85 |date=Summer 2019| volume= 44 Number= 2}} Northumberland & Durham Family History Society Journal - Summer 2019 Volume 44, Number 2, pages 82–85, Author - REED, Michael - "We Are Amused: How a breakthrough in medical research by the Duchess of Cambridge's Newcastle ancestors was personally appreciated by Queen Victoria"

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