He was born in North Adelaide, the eldest son of George Green who founded the real-estate firm of Green & Company on King William Street in 1848. He joined his father"s firm in 1867, and took it over in 1871, with Colonel J. Chapman Lovely (c 1837 – 11 November 1915) as partner, when his father retired.
He was educated at Saint Peter"s College, and at Brighton, England.
He was generally referred to as "Dutton Green" and adopted it as his family name, occasionally hyphenated. In 1879, supported by the Rymill brothers and several other businessmen, he established a new Stock Exchange (one of two competing schemes), on land known as "King"s timber yard" in Pirie Street. They hired Edmund West. Wright to design the new building.
Green was a director of many notable companies: the South Australian Gas Company, the South Australian Brewing Company, John Hill & Company, the Metropolitan Brick Company, Glenelg Railwvay Company.
He was a vice-president of the Park Lands League, a trustee of the Wyatt Benevolent Fund, and patron of racing clubs and athletic bodies. Evelyn Dutton Green (15 December 1876 – ) married Captain Gordon Cavenagh-Mainwaring on 2 November 1904.
Olive Dutton Green (19 February 1878 – July 1930) was a noted painter, established Olive Dutton Green landscape prize. Myrtle Dutton Green ( – ) married noted ornithologist Doctor Alexander Matheson Morgan Bachelor of Medicine (11 February 1867 – 18 October 1934), son of Sir William Morgan, on 11 October 1905.
William Matheson Morgan (9 November 1906 – 2 February 1972) mining engineer
