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Terence
Lucy Greenidge (14 January 1902 – 18 December 1970) was an English author and
actor. He was a first generation Barbadian born in England and second son of
Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (who came up to study and remained at Oxford as an
academic) and his wife Edith Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of William Lucy,
at that time the sole owner of Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle
Ironworks, in Walton Well Road, Jericho, Oxford. The Greenidge family trace
their ancestry in Barbados to John of Greenwich who left London on 2 May 1635
on the ship Alexander. Within one generation the etymon, meaning Green Port
or Trading Place (cf Norwich, Harwich and Ipswich in England) of the
surname had assumed the distinctly West Indian orthographic format of
Greenidge, whilst maintaining a very similar phenomic identity. He was a
member of the Hypocrites'
Club.
Greenidge was a friend of
Evelyn Waugh,
whom he met at Oxford, and collaborated with him in producing the Scarlet
Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama.[1]
Evelyn Waugh in Letters (editor by Charles E. Linck) was published
posthumously in 1994, which details many of Greenidge's recollections of
Evelyn Waugh.
Terence Greenidge's parents died within a year of each other in 1906/07 and
the young Terence was brought up by his guardian/godfather, Dr Rev. Henry
Herbert Williams, who went on to become Bishop of Carlisle between 1920 and
1947. Terence went to Dragon School in Oxford, before going up to Rugby School
between 1915 and 1920.
Rugby School
He won a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford where he read Classics and
obtained a second in Honours Moderns and a second in Greats. The Trustee of
his father’s will was the bursar at Hertford. At Oxford, he was one of the
founding members of the Hypocrites' Club and kept friends with Evelyn and Alec
Waugh and introducing them to the club.
In the summer of 1924, Terence Greenidge, his brother John Greenidge,
Evelyn Waugh, and John
Sutro, the film producer whom Terence knew at Rugby School,[2]
contributed £5 each to purchase a cine-camera and started filming the
Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama,[3]
a collaboration that would only yield a small dividend, some forty-two years
later, to John Sutro and Terence Greenidge, since by then his brother John
Greenidge (October 1953) and Evelyn Waugh (April 1966) had died.
As well as being a playwright, Greenidge was an actor although he only
played smaller roles on stage and television. He was still acting at the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon until three years before his death in
1970.
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