The Greenshields Name

Greenshields is a well-known shipping name, dating back to John Greenshields who moved from Glasgow to Liverpool in the 1820s.

His son Thomas Edwards Greenshields
continued the family business of Greenshields & Co and was later joined by his younger brother Robert Low Greenshields.

In 1862 the brothers decided to form two separate companies. Robert continued to trade as Greenshields & Co and his branch survives today as Greenshields Cowie & Co, the forwarding agents.

Thomas Edwards Greenshields (1828 - 1907)

Thomas's company, Greenshields
MacDiarmid,continued as shipowners
and owned the last sailing ships to sail out of Liverpool until Thomas's death in 1907.

The Greenshields name in shipping was re-established almost a century later by Thomas's great grandson and his business partner, with the formation in 1997 of Greenshields & Co Edinburgh and Greenshields Shipping, companies that proudly bear the family name.