Greenfield Siblings

Marjorie Hensley Greenfield (1893-1969)

Marjorie H. Greenfield L.R.A.M. was a well-known music educator, mezzo-soprano singer in the 1920s and 30s (often featuring with an orchestra in BBC broadcasts in Scotland), composer and compiler of material for use in teaching young children about music in a practical way. She published a large number of songs, music and other material to provide a basis for music notation and performance teaching of young children.

She travelled the country from the 1920s to the 1950s speaking at conferences, promoting folk song and music education and acting as an adjudicator at music festivals. Her methods and simple teaching materials were widely used across the world. Titles included those shown below and “Rhythmic Stepping Songs”, “Drums and Triangles: A Practical Guide to Percussion Band Work”, “Rhythm Pattern Cards”, “Folk Rhymes and Rhythms for Percussion Bands”, “Simple Ball Games with Music”, “Drums and triangles : one hundred graded percussion band exercises for beginners” and many others. They enjoyed a wide sale and were published by Curwen.

One of her songs, in a small format book designed for small hands, was, ‘Dance Dance Dance’ which contains references by name to her Great Nephews and Nieces at the time, David, Susan, Richard, Mary Jane.

In 1926, Marjorie Greenfield explained her principles for teaching music to children at a talk given to parents. Download Transcript (24Mb)

LECTURE ON MUSIC TO ANGUS TEACHERS
Under the auspices of Angus branch of the Educational Institute of Scotland Miss Marjorie Greenfield, Edinburgh, the well known exponent of music in the schools gave a lecture on “The Child’s Path to Music” to an audience of nearly 100 teachers, drawn from all over the county, in the Training College, Dundee, on Saturday. Miss Blanche Mearns, Montrose Academy, chairman of the Angus branch presided. Miss Greenfield spoke of the ideals and aims in musical training, and gave practical demonstrations of rhythmic movements and games. She also sang some favourite songs and carols, suitable for children of different ages. The speaker emphasised the necessity having good tune such as children could readily learn, and also of having one with an idea in it. Mr Wilson proposed a vote of thanks to Miss Greenfield and Miss Halley, her accompanist. (Dundee Courier 05/12/1932 p7.)

Sample pages from ‘The Book of the Scale Family’ (1952, Curwen 7/6d)

Joseph Godwin Greenfield FRCP (1884 – 1958)

An early neuropathologist. He created, with 28 founding members, the neuropathological club, which would eventually become the British Neuropathological Society. (Wikipedia)

During his first few years as pathologist, he also volunteered for a commission from the Royal Army Medical Corps and was deployed in France during World War I, notably serving during the Great Retreat from Mons. In 1917 he was appointed to a RAMC centre in Tooting for treatment of nervous system injuries, and returned to his post at Queen’s Square at the end of his commission in 1919.

Greenfield’s Neuropathology, his major work published posthumously in 1958, is regularly revised and published as the definitive reference book on the subject.

Betty Greenfield

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Charlotte Rose Greenfield (1880-1954)

Dr Charlotte Rose Greenfield, medical officer in charge of St Margaret’s Hospital, Poona, Bombay, was awarded in the King’s New Year honours of 1933 the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal of the first class for public services in India. The Obstetric and Gynaecological Hospital was opened in 1892 as a Mission Hospital by The Church of Scotland. Fund raising activity to provide support to the hospital was a major activity in many Scottish churches.

Fenella Greenfield writes “I went to India December 2014-early April 2015 and paid a visit in the end of Feb 2015 to see the hospital set up by the Greenfield aunts. It was interesting to see how much the hospital has grown over the years, starting off in a small, what I can remember off the top of my head a Chapel? But I maybe very wrong about this as it was over 5 years ago. As a Greenfield I was given a tumultuous welcome and made to address the hundreds of medical students. Hopefully I didn’t let the Greenfield side down.

Memorial to Elizabeth Anne Greenfield, Ludhiana, India

(Assume William Greenfield’s Sister is referred to here and Charlotte Rose continued the work started by Rose) Miss Rose Greenfield came out to India (Ludhiana) in 1875 under the Society for Female Education in the East. Her work at first consisted in visiting the zenanas, teaching the women and organizing schools for the children. Almost immediately she was brought into contact with cases of illness and began to treat them by prescribing cleanliness and simple remedies. Women soon began coming regularly for advice, and in 1881 a room was taken and a regular dispensary opened. The old mission church was adapted for a hospital in 1889 (the Charlotte Hospital) and put in charge of a qualified medical woman in 1891. Miss Greenfield continued to do medical work in the city and district. In 1893 and the following years, she was largely instrumental in organizing and opening the Women’s Medical School at Ludhiana, in which she was associated with Dr. Edith Brown, the first principal. Miss Greenfield raised funds for a new hospital to be attached to the Medical School, which was named the ‘Memorial’ Hospital after her sister, Miss Elizabeth Greenfield. She continued to work in Ludhiana and other Punjab stations until 1924 when she retired after forty-nine years in India. She received the Kaisar-i-Hind medal of the first class in 1926. “The work of Medical women in India” Balfour, Young, Sharlieb, OUP 1929 p 18-19, 34, 113,

Helen Greenfield (1888-?)

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All known siblings:

The 1901 census shows the following people & their ages & locations:

Address: 7 Heriot Row Edinburgh

William Smith Greenfield – 55
Charlotte Greenfield – 48
Frances Edith Greenfield – 18
Helen Foster Greenfield – 14
Mary Elizabeth Greenfield – 11
Marjorie Hensley Greenfield – 8
Thomas “Charles” Greenfield – 7

Separate Address in Edinburgh

Joseph Godwin Greenfield – 16

Kirkbrae, Elie

David W Greenfield – 19
Charlotte Rose Greenfield – 21

Evelyn Greenfield had died in 1892 aged 3 of Scarlet Fever

In 1908, Frances Edith Greenfield (Known as ‘Edie’) married William Elliott Carnegie Dickson in Edinburgh. He was a doctor and an assistant to William Greenfield.