Benjamin Greene

1808 (age 94)

Blyths and Greene, merchants and shipowners, became one of London"s largest colonial merchants and shipowners importing sugar from Mauritius and then exporting British goods back there again. He converted Spooner"s Estate on Saint Kitts to steam-powered milling in the 1870s. Buck purchased Midgham House in Berkshire in 1856. He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1865. Elected a Bank of England director in 1850, he became Deputy Governor in 1871 and went on to become Governor in 1873. He died at his home in Berkshire on 3 April 1902. In 1837 Greene married Isabella Elizabeth Blyth, daughter of Thomas Blyth, a wealthy ship merchant. She died in 1888.

Benjamin Greene

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Born the son of Benjamin Greene, Greene was educated at King Edward VI School in Bury Street Edmunds. Green went to Saint Kitts in 1829 to look after his father"s interests.

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Blyths and Greene, merchants and shipowners, became one of London"s largest colonial merchants and shipowners importing sugar from Mauritius and then exporting British goods back there again. He converted Spooner"s Estate on Saint Kitts to steam-powered milling in the 1870s. Buck purchased Midgham House in Berkshire in 1856.

He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1865.

Elected a Bank of England director in 1850, he became Deputy Governor in 1871 and went on to become Governor in 1873. He died at his home in Berkshire on 3 April 1902.

In 1837 Greene married Isabella Elizabeth Blyth, daughter of Thomas Blyth, a wealthy ship merchant. She died in 1888.

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