GREEN, Bevis Ellerby. Apprenticed to Mr. Hurst of Longman’s 1807, a partner 1824 to June 1865 when he retired; was only remaining partner of the old firm of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers Paternoster row. d. 5 Kensington palace gardens 24 Jany. 1869 aged 75, will proved March 1869 personalty under £200,000.
GREEN, Charles (son of Thomas Green, fruiterer d. 1850). b. 92 Goswell road, London 31 Jany. 1785; fruiterer with his father; made first balloon ascent from Green park, London 19 July 1821 using carburetted hydrogen gas; went up on the back of a pony 16 Aug. 1828; constructed Great Nassau balloon for Vauxhall gardens 1836; went in the Nassau from London to Nassau, Germany 7–8 Nov. 1836; ascended with Robert Cocking 24 July 1837 when Cocking in coming down in a parachute was killed; ascended to height of 5–1/4 miles 10 Sep. 1838; farewell and last of 527 voyages, at Vauxhall 13 Sep. 1852; invented the guide rope to regulate ascent and descent of balloon. d. Ariel villa, 51 Tufnell park road, Holloway, London 26 March 1870. Mason’s Aeronautica (1838) 1–98, portrait; Turnor’s Astra Castra (1865) 129 etc., 2 portraits; I.L.N. 16 April 1870 p. 401, portrait.
GREEN, Christopher. b. near Wisbeach 1820; rode for Mr. Willoughby, Ben Land and Earl Poulett 1850; a trainer at Littleport, Isle of Ely, removed to Newmarket 1859; won the Grand National on Abd-el-Kader 1850 and on Half Caste 1859. d. Wisbeach 26 Feb. 1874. Illust. sporting and dramatic news, i, 61–2 (1874), portrait.
GREEN, Eliza S. Craven (dau. of Mr. Craven). b. Leeds 1803; lived for sometime in Isle of Man and in Manchester, then returned to Leeds; a contributor of poetry and prose sketches to the Phœnix 1828, Falcon 1831, both Manchester magazines, to the Odd-fellows’ Magazine 1841, Leeds Intelligencer 1816, La Follet 1846, Hogg’s Instructor and Chambers’s Journal; had a grant from queen’s privy purse; author of A legend of Mona, Douglas 1825; Sea weeds and heath flowers, Douglas 1858, 2 ed.; edited Flowers from the glen, By J. Waddington 1862. d. Meanwood st., Little London, Leeds 11 March 1866. Biographia Leodiensis (1867), Suppl. 610; W. Grainge’s Poets of Yorkshire, ii, 505.
GREEN, Frank William. Author of Cherry and fair star, burlesque at Surrey theatre 1874; Jack and the beanstalk, pantomime at Garrison theatre, Woolwich 1874; Jack the giant killer, pantomime Surrey theatre 1875; Cinderella, pantomime at Prince of Wales’ theatre, Birmingham 1877; also wrote Gulliver and the fair Persian, Lothair for Theatre royal, Liverpool, and Hop o’ my Thumb for T.R. Brighton. d. 5 Staple inn, Holborn, London 16 April 1884 aged 42.
GREEN, Rev. Henry (son of a paper maker). b. Penshurst, Kent 23 June 1801; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1825; minister Presbyterian ch. Knutsford, Cheshire, Jany. 1827, resigned June 1872, also kept a school; one of founders of Holbein soc. 1868, member of council; a student of the early emblem writers; author of Sir I. Newton’s Views on Trinitarian doctrine 1856; The cat in chancery, Manchester 1858, anon.; Knutsford and its traditions 1859; edited 6 works for Holbein soc., and about 15 other books. d. Knutsford 9 Aug. 1873. Unitarian Herald 22 Aug. 1873.
GREEN, John (son of Mr. Green, agricultural implement maker). b. Newton Fell house, Nafferton, Northumberland 20 June 1787; partner with his father, when they removed to Corbridge; removed to Newcastle, architect there 1821; designed and executed the chain bridge over the Tyne at Scotswood 1831; built bridges over the Tees and the Ouse, the theatre and Grey column at Newcastle, the Durham monument on Pensher hill, and churches at Stockton and Middlesbrough; M.I.C.E. 1840. d. Newcastle 30 Sep. 1852. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 138–40 (1854).
GREEN, John. Actor at old English opera house, London, and at Covent Garden; manager of the Cider Cellars in Maiden lane, Strand, London, and singer there; chairman and conductor of music at Evans’ hall 43 King st. Covent Garden 1842–4; manager and proprietor in succession to W. C. Evans (who d. 1855) of Evans’s hotel and music hall 1844 to 1865 when he sold it for £30,000 to a joint stock company which took possession 24 June 1865; gave evidence before committee on theatrical licences 1866; his theatrical portraits were sold at Christie’s 22 July 1871; always known as Paddy Green; author of Odds and Ends about Covent Garden 1866. d. 6 Farm st. May Fair, London 12 Dec. 1874 aged 73. House of Commons Papers, xvi, 200–204 (1866).
GREEN, Sir John. Vice consul at Nauplia 1 May 1835; agent and consul general for united principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia 12 Jany. 1867 to 16 Feb. 1874 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. d. Marienbad 18 Sep. 1877 aged 69.
GREEN, John (son of John Green of Greenville, co. Kilkenny). b. 1815; lieut. 5 light dragoons; lieut. 4 dragoon guards; M.P. co. Kilkenny 1847–65. d. London 16 June 1883.