Ashley Greenwood

mountaineer. He calculated that in his climbing, military and legal careers, he had spent time in 103 countries.^[3]

Haileybury College, Greenwood enrolled at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in Classics

Second World War. He went on to marry a fellow-mountaineer. He celebrated his 80th birthday by scaling the 6121-meter high Stok Kangri Himalayan peak in Ladakh.^[5][6]

Captain in 1940, with service number 132776.^[7] In April 1943, at a mountain warfare conference at Lochailort, Scotland, he was transferred to the New Zealand Squadron as a climbing instructor for mountain warfare. He accompanied the New Zealand Squadron in its ultimately doomed attempt to occupy the Italian-controlled Dodecanese Islands. Escaping to Turkey, he went on to become a liaison officer for the Long Range Desert Group of a British brigade in Montenegro in 1945. In June 1945, he joined the Allied Military Government Organization in Austria, serving until March 1946. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Colonial Office.^[8] He was awarded the Military Cross in 1944.^[9]

Attorney General later that year,^[11] serving until 1963, when he became Attorney General of Gibraltar. He later filled in as Acting Attorney General of Montserrat, as well as a legal adviser in Hong Kong. He was also to spend a year in Washington, D.C. as an adviser to the Telstar Conference.^[12]