Margery Greenwood, Viscountess Greenwood
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Margery Greenwood, Viscountess Greenwood DBE OStJ （née Spencer; 20 December 1886 – 24 April 1968）, known as Margo Greenwood, was a British aristocrat and the wife of Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood.
Very politically active, she was known to frequent meetings of parliament in the House of Commons and took an active role in her husband's constituencies while he sat in Parliament for York.
She also notably had an affair with Lloyd George.
Lady Greenwood was born Margery Spencer on 20 December 1886 in Sapiston, the daughter of Rev.
Walter Spencer of Fownhope Court, Herefordshire and Anne Elizabeth Hudson of Bache Hall.
Her maternal grandfather was soap manufacturer Robert Spear Hudson.
She had two brothers, Robert and Geoffrey, and two sisters, Olive and Muriel.
The Toronto World described her as being from "an ancient, dignified, and not impoverished family".
Lady Greenwood was educated at fashionable girls' schools in Eversley and Folkestone before attending a finishing school in Switzerland.
While in Switzerland, she became fluent in French, an accomplished equestrian, and studied painting and sculpture.
She would spend summers at her family's villa in Sanremo, where she became proficient in Italian.
During her school days, she was described as being "ambitious" and having a "decidedly independent mind".
On 23 May 1911, she married Hamar Greenwood, a Canadian-British politician and lawyer who sat as a Member of Parliament for Sunderland, in a ceremony at St Margaret's, Westminster.
The aisles were lined with troopers from the Canadian Squadron of King Edward's Horse.
The wedding festivities were attended by many political leaders including H. H....