Arthur Green (bishop)
Life
Green was born in Albury, Surrey“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} on 12 May 1857. His parents were Eliza (born Dutton) and her husband Rev. Samuel Dutton Green. His younger sister and supporter Florence was born in 1862. They were brought up in Adelaide, Wales and Scotland and educated at Trinity College, Melbourne.[http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/publications/archive_displays/theological/faces/green College web site] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709204056/http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/publications/archive_displays/theological/faces/green |date=July 9, 2009 }} He was ordained in 1880"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 and his first posts were curacies at St Andrew's Church, Brighton, and St Peter's, Eastern Hill, Melbourne. He then held incumbencies at Holy Trinity, Maldon and St Paul's, Geelong. His next post was as Archdeacon of Ballarat.”The Story of The Anglican Church in Australia” Symonds, E London, SPCK, 1898 In 1894 he was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Grafton and Armidale.Diocese of Grafton and Armidale The Times Tuesday, Apr 03, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34228; col C In 1898 he founded St John's College, Armidale and was the first Warden.Bourne, Sheila (Ed), Remembering Saint John's College Morpeth 1926-2006, (2007: Anglican Diocese of Newcastle), p 150.
In 1900 he was translated to Ballarat.{{cite book | last=Malden Richard (ed) | author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=6| year=1920 | isbn=}} In 1903 he founded St Aidan's Theological College and made a start on work on Christ Church Cathedral. He retired as bishop in 1915.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adb.anu.edu.au/biography/green-arthur-vincent-6469|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: Arthur Vincent Green|access-date=9 January 2021}} From 1920 he was a lecturer in theology at his old college.
His sister Florence paid for the education of a young Henry Handel Richardson; in Richardson's coming of age novel The Getting of Wisdom Florence was depicted as Miss Isabella, and Arthur as her brother, the Rev Mr Shepherd. She was the founding headmistress of the New England Girls' School.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adb.anu.edu.au/biography/green-arthur-vincent-6469|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: Arthur Vincent Green|access-date=9 January 2021}} Another sister, Agnes, was a religious in the Community of St. Denys in Warminster.{{Cite web|url=https://www.adb.anu.edu.au/biography/green-arthur-vincent-6469|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: Arthur Vincent Green|access-date=9 January 2021}}
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