Henry Green (MP for Poplar)
{{Short description|English shipowner and Liberal politician}}
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| birth_date = 1838
| birth_place = Blackwall, London
| death_date = 7 June 1900 (aged 61–62)
| death_place = Charlton, London
| occupation = Shipowner, politician
| spouse = Frances Gisborne Lewin
}}
Henry Green (1838 – 7 June 1900){{cite web
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| title = House of Commons constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
| work = Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages
| accessdate = 2009-05-07
| url-status = usurped
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181127183301/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm
| archive-date = 2018-11-27
}} was an English shipowner and Liberal politician.
Life
Green was born at Blackwall, London,British Census 1881 RG11 0741/25 p2 the son of Henry Green of Blackwall and Walthamstow. He was educated at Cheam School and at Bonn University. He became a senior partner in the London shipowning firm of R & H Green, and a Director of the East and West India Dock Company. He was president of the Chamber of Shipping and in 1884 was appointed to a Royal Commission to enquire into the loss of life and property at sea."The Royal Commission on Merchant Shipping", Straits Times Weekly, Issue, 6 December 1884, Page 11. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/stweekly18841206-1.2.39.aspx Archived copy], retrieved: 20 October 2015. Green was also J.P. for Middlesex.[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886]
In the 1885 general election, Green was elected Member of Parliament for Poplar but he stood down in the 1886 general election.{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|author-link= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918
|origyear=1974
|edition= 2nd
|year=1989
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-27-2
|page=54
}}
Green married Frances Gisborne Lewin who was born in India. He lived at The Cherry Orchard, Old Charlton, Kent until his death on 7 June 1900 at the age of 61.
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Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:People educated at Cheam School
Category:English businesspeople in shipping