Robert Walkington Greaves

• Birth date            6 February 1872 at York
• Marriage              1903 at Chorlton t0 Elizabeth Ann Boddy
• Death date          22 May 1951

Robert Walkington Greaves was born in York, the son of John Clapham Greaves, a Wesleyan minister, and Mary Elizabeth Greaves. Birth/christening 6 February 1872 at New Street Chapel York He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School Apperley Bridge, near Bradford after which he was articled to an architect. As a Wesleyan minister, John Greaves moved at regular intervals, and by 1903 this family were living in Cheetham. In 1903 Robert Walkington Greaves was practising on his own account in Manchester. Following his marriage to Elizabeth Ann, the daughter of Charles Boddy, builder and contractor, in that year he went to work as a manager for his father-in-law, and in 1921 inherited the business on the death of Charles Boddy, continuing it under its old name.

Address
1903        R. Walkington Greaves, Imperial Buildings, 20, Cross Street, Manchester.

Residence
1872        York
1881        Belvidere Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool
1891        Mytholmes Lane, Howarth, Keighley, Yorkshire
1901        259 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester
1909        Overdale Villa, Langham Road, Bowdon (Slater)
1911        Didsbury
1921        Robert Walkington Greaves, 19 Victoria Avenue Didsbury
1951        Robert Walkington Greaves, 19 Victoria Avenue Didsbury