Edward Greenall, 2nd Baron Daresbury (12 October 1902 – 15 February 1990) was a British business man, landowner, and member of the House of Lords from 1938 until his death.
Greenall was the son of Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baron Daresbury, a baronet who was raised to the peerage in 1927, and his wife Frances Eliza, a daughter of Captain Edward Wynne Griffith.Charles Kidd, David Williamson (editors), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (New York: St Martin's Press, 1990) He was educated at Wixenford School and Eton College"Daresbury, 2nd Baron, (Edward Greenall) (12 Oct. 1902 – 15 Feb. 1990)" in Who's Who online edition, published 1 December 2007, accessed 4 August 2025 and in 1921 was commissioned into the Life Guards. In 1934 he became Joint Master of the Belvoir Hunt with Lt.-Colonel Colman."The New Peer", Melton Mowbray Times and Vale of Belvoir Gazette, Friday 28 October 1938, p. 2
Daresbury was a dog breeder as well as a master of foxhounds. The family's wealth came from the Greenall's brewery, established by an ancestor, Thomas Greenall, in 1762."Lord Daresbury" (obituary), The Times, 23 February 1990, p. 14
Greenall married Margaret Ada, a daughter of C. J. Crawford of Wayside, St Andrews, and they had three sons and one daughter. Having succeeded his father in 1938, by the end of his life in 1990 Daresbury was living at Altavilla, Askeaton, County Limerick, Ireland.
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