Background
GREENE, H. Barrett was born on November 24, 1861 in Bridport.
GREENE, H. Barrett was born on November 24, 1861 in Bridport.
Huish’s, Taunton; private study and experience. Early training in journalism at Taunton, Wigan, and Sunderland.
Joined Newcastle Chronicle, 1883. Editor of Newcastle Evening Chronicle for some years. Sent many verbatims of West. East. Gladstone, J. Morley, R. Churchill, A. Balfour, and J. Chamberlain to The Times.
Persistently advocated federation of six Potteries towns into one County Borough (Stoke-on-Trent), leading up to Acting of Parliament, 1908, which came into operation March 1910.
Has written much local history and dramatic criticism. Democrat and Imperialist.
Interested in educational and industrial questions. Editor and Leaderwriter Staffordshire Daily Sentinel, Hanley, since 1899.
East. son of J. C. Greene, over fifty years on Somerset County Gazette, Taunton.