Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge was the vice president of the Anti-Slavery Society in 1968.
He was the youngest son of Charles Joseph Greenidge, a member of the Colonial Parliament of Barbados the West Indies by his second wife, Edith Marion Wood.
When he was not posted overseas, he lived most of his life in Barbados, with a second home in Malta.
The Greenidge family traced their ancestry in Barbados to John of Greenwich who left London on 2 May 1635 on Alexander.
Within one generation the etymon, meaning Green Port or Trading Place (cf Norwich, Harwich Ipswich and Sandwich in England), he had assumed distinctly the surname of West Africa orthographic format of Greenidge of which he maintained a very similar phenomic identity.