Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet

British politician

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1831

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1923

Profession: businessperson, politician

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet

  • Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet (4 March 1831 – 30 March 1923) was an English ironmaster and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1892. Green was the son of Edward Green (engineer), a Yorkshire ironmaster who founded E.
  • Green & Son based in Wakefield and patented "Green's Economiser".
  • This was a device for recycling heat from boilers that previously went to waste.Green was educated at West Riding Proprietary School and in Germany, and became an engineer in his father's business.
  • He served in the 1st West Yorkshire Yeomanry as a lieutenant and later captain.
  • In 1865 he and his wife leased Heath Old Hall, an Elizabethan House near Wakefield which they set about developing and furnishing.
  • In 1877 Green purchased the Snettisham Estate in North West Norfolk, and built a new house, Ken Hill, primarily as a shooting lodge.
  • Green became a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and was a JP for the West Riding of Yorkshire and for Norfolk.
  • Between 1874 and 1878, Green was a Governor of Wakefield Grammar School.At the 1874 general election Green was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield, but he was unseated on petition.
  • In 1880 he stood in Pontefract, but was not elected.
  • He returned to Wakefield at a by-election in July 1885, and won the seat, holding it until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1892 general election.
  • On 5 March 1886 he was created a Baronet 'of Wakefield and Ken Hill'.Green married Mary Lycett [1], daughter of William Edward Lycett[2] of Bowdon Cheshire in 1859, introducing the name Lycett into the family.
  • Lady Green died in King's Lynn on 7 November 1902, in her 67th year.
  • Their eldest son Edward Lycett Green achieved a certain amount of notoriety as he was involved in the Royal Baccarat Scandal in 1890.
  • Edward succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. His great-grandson is the fashion designer Rupert Lycett Green.

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