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Arthur Greenwood CH, PC ( 8 February 1880 – 9 June 1954 ) was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s.

He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924.

In 1940, he was instrumental in resolving that Britain would continue fighting Nazi Germany in World War II.

He was also noted for problems with alcoholism.