![]() John Fowler Green (died 1904, at age 80), was son of Mrs Green of Nechell's Cottage, Saltley, a Cambridge graduate and cleric, becoming vicar of Whiteshill. John Simmons Green of Nechells died in 1841, leaving a son, John Fowler Green, and a daughter Mary, who married Robert Baynes. The Green family moved over several generations from the Birmingham area to Gloucestershire. He abolished Green's Controller post in 1961, and the Talks Division was merged into Current Affairs Talks, under J. Greene came in as Director-General in 1960, succeeding Jacob. He at one point gave an opinion of Greene: "I think he's got the stuff of which Cromwells are made his absence of sensitivity doesn't worry him." Greene immediately quarrelled with Hole, who was moved from news. When Hugh Greene was promoted to Director, News and Current Affairs, around 1958, it was on Green's recommendation. He was instrumental in the 1957 recruitment of Ian McIntyre, whose background had some features in common with his own. Regarded by Asa Briggs as "a strong and forthright character in his own right", he played a role as mediator on news co-operation, on behalf of the Director-General Ian Jacob, between Tahu Hole and Cecil McGivern. In 1956 Green became Controller of the Talks Division of BBC Radio, for five years. Post-war, Green was involved in discussion of the BBC's factual content, and set up the radio series "At Home And Abroad" of the 1950s, which included interviews of world leaders. Green held the post of Agricultural Liaison Officer, and it was the ancestor of Farming Today. Green introduced also "For Farmers Only", on agricultural topics, cancelled on the outbreak of World War II but then reinstated. He was given his own weekly programme, In the Garden, in September 1934. Initially Middleton was one of a group of speakers found by the Royal Horticultural Society. Green innovated with a regular gardening talk, given by C. According to Hendy, it was to "help whip leftish producers into line." In 1935 Green produced a monthly radio series "Empire at Work". Career Ĭalled to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1933, Green was brought into the BBC by Lord Reith in 1934. Green attended a 1939 private dinner of the Mistery, in his capacity as Constable of the St James Kin. Ludovici's Violence, Sacrifice and War (1933), Creation and Recreation (1934) and Recovery: the Quest of regenerate national values (1935) were published by the St James Kin cell of the English Mistery to whom he had lectured, on the Alexander technique. John Green, a member of the English Mistery, a high loyalist Tory group, tells us about the writer who sets forth the ideals of his society. Duncan Sandys tells us what he is trying to do in the British Movement. Part I of "Youth Speaks Out", in the same issue, was by Duncan Sandys, with title "The British Movement", on a short-lived "rightist" conservative group. Green with William Sanderson, Wallop and Ludovici advocated for a return to a medieval constitution. In 1934, Green wrote in The National Review on Anthony Ludovici, in an article "Youth Speaks Out II.-A Political Writer". In 1931, as chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, Green wrote a essay dedicated to Gerard Wallop (courtesy title Viscount Lymington) of the English Mistery: it was for Dorothy Crisp's collection The Rebirth of Conservatism. John Platts-Mills encountered Green at meetings of the English Mistery in the early 1930s. ![]() The record shows that "He argued that no one is interested in politics any more, so they should be left to Mussolini." During a visit to the Oxford Union, on 13 February 1930, he was involved in a debate on "House believes Fascism is necessary". While an undergraduate, Green was President of the Cambridge Union. ![]() He was educated at Cheltenham College and was a student at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Henry Green and his wife Amy Gertrude Rock, married in 1904, of Chedworth, Gloucestershire. ![]()
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