Background
He was a first generation Barbadian born in England and second son of Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (who came up to study and remained at Oxford as an academic) and his wife Edith Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of William Lucy, at that time the sole owner of Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle Ironworks, in Walton Well Road, Jericho, Oxford.
Education
Dragon School; Rugby School. Hertford College.
Career
The Greenidge family trace their ancestry in Barbados to John of Greenwich who left London on 2 May 1635 on the ship Alexander. Within one generation the etymon, meaning Green Portuguese or Trading Place (cf Norwich, Harwich and Ipswich in England) of the surname had assumed the distinctly West Indian orthographic format of Greenidge, whilst maintaining a very similar phenomic identity. Evelyn Waugh in Letters (editor by Charles East Linck) was published posthumously in 1994, which details many of Greenidge"s recollections of Evelyn Waugh.
Terence Greenidge"s parents died within a year of each other in 1906/07 and the young Terence was brought up by his guardian/godfather, Doctor Review
Henry Herbert Williams, who went on to become Bishop of Carlisle between 1920 and 1947. Terence went to Dragon School in Oxford, before going up to Rugby School between 1915 and 1920.
The Trustee of his father’s will was the bursar at Hertford. As well as being a playwright, Greenidge was an actor although he only played smaller roles on stage and television
He was still acting at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon until three years before his death in 1970.
Membership
At Oxford, he was one of the founding members of the Hypocrites Club and kept friends with Evelyn and Alec Waugh and introducing them to the club