GREENFIELD, ALFRED (1829-1920) was born in Islington, London, the son of a solicitor, in whose office he was employed after completing his education at the Mordon Hill Academy. In 1851 he came to Nelson in the Clara and shortly afterwards, with Walter Long Wrey, drove a mob of horses from Nelson to Amuri for John Tinline. He was a cadet on a Stoke property and then became clerk in the Superintendent's office (1854). There he was employed throughout the provincial period, as clerk, provincial secretary and treasurer; M.P.C. for Nelson (1865-67), and a member of the executive in 1857, 1865 and 1865-75. He was also provincial auditor, commissioner of crown lands, agent for the south-western goldfields, judge of the assessment court, warden at Westport and Palmerston North and chairman of the wardens' conference, and a member of the education board and the hospital board. As chairman of the Nelson school commissioners he did much towards the foundation of the Nelson Girls' College. Greenfield was resident magistrate at Clyde and Thames, and acted on six royal commissions. He died on 31 May 1920.

Nelson P.C. Proc. and Gaz.; Nelson Evening Mail 1 Jun 1920.

Reference: Volume 1, page 177

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