Background
Green was the son of Edward Green (engineer), a Yorkshire ironmaster who founded E. Green & Son based in Wakefield and patented "Green"s Economiser".
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Green was the son of Edward Green (engineer), a Yorkshire ironmaster who founded E. Green & Son based in Wakefield and patented "Green"s Economiser".
Green was educated at West Riding Proprietary School and in Germany, and became an engineer in his father"s business.
This was a device for recycling heat from boilers that previously went to waste. He served in the 1st West Yorkshire Yeomanry as a lieutenant and later captain. 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 Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire and for Norfolk.
Between 1874 and 1878, Green was a Governor of Wakefield Grammar School. In 1880 he stood in Pontefract, but was not elected.
On 5 March 1886 he was created Baronet of Wakefield and Ken Hill. Green married Mary Lycett, daughter of William Edward Lycett of Bowdon Cheshire in 1859, introducing the name Lycett into the family.
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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At the 1874 general election Green was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Wakefield, but he was unseated on petition.
Heir: Edward Lycett.