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GREEN, William Spotswood was born in 1847. Only child of Charles Green of Youghal, Company Cork, Justice of the Peace, and Catherine Frances, daughter of Mr. Fitzsimons.
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William Spotswood Green
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Studied at Trinity College Dublin. Bachelor of Arts 1871, Master of Arts 1874. Master of Arts.
Career
Born at Youghal and educated at Trinity College in Dublin, he was ordained a priest in 1873. Already before he left the services of the Church in 1890, he had worked on marine biology. In the 1880s, he participated as a leading member in several research expeditions sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy.
In 1892, he became the Inspector of Fisheries.
Combined with this work he was a Commissioner on the Congested Districts Board, where his intimate knowledge of human conditions in western Ireland was of great service. In 1914 he shook off the trammels of office, and retired to West Cove in Kerry.
There he died five years later. In the late 1880s Green did survey work in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia.
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Green was also a member of the English Alpine Club and became a mountain climber well-known especially in Canada and New Zealand.
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