 He was McMahon Law Student in 1888 and called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1889 but died in 1890.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 Port" or "Trading Place" (cf Norwich, Harwich and Ipswich in England) of the surname had assumed the distinctly West Indian orthographic format of Greenidge, while maintaining a very similar phenomic identity.