with their present state in England,’ London, 1782, 4to, in a letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds. 3. ‘Acta Historica Reginarum Angliæ; from twelve original drawings executed by J. G. Huck of Dusseldorf,’ 1786, 4to. 4. ‘An Account of the Discovery of the Body of King John in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, July 17, 1797,’ London, 1797, 4to.
There is a portrait of Valentine Green, engraved by himself, after a painting by Lemuel F. Abbott, which was also engraved in line by James Fittler, A.R.A., and prefixed to the ‘History and Antiquities of Worcester.’
Rupert Green, the only son of Valentine Green, born about 1768, was brought up to his father's profession, and was in partnership with him as a print publisher from about 1785 to 1798. There is a view of ‘The Harbour and Pier, Ramsgate,’ drawn by him in 1781, and engraved by V. Green and F. Jukes, and also an oval portrait of George III, drawn and engraved in mezzotint by him, and published in 1801. Before he was nine years old he wrote a tragedy called ‘The Secret Plot,’ which was printed for private circulation in 1777. He died on 16 Nov. 1804, aged 36, and was buried in Hampstead churchyard.
[Monthly Mirror, 1809, i. 323, ii. 7, 135, with portrait engraved by Freeman; Gent. Mag. 1813, i. 666, ii. 446; John Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits, 1878-83, ii.532-99; Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers, ed. Graves, 1886-9, i. 597; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists of the English School, 1878; Sandby's Hist. of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1862, i. 233-5; Exhibition Catalogues of the Incorporated Society of Artists, 1766-75; Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogues, 1774-1806; Park's Topography and Natural History of Hampstead, 1814, p. 347.]
GREEN, WILLIAM (1714?–1794), hebraist, born at Newark, Nottinghamshire about 1714, entered Clare Hall, Cambridge as a sizar on 16 March 1733-4, but was admitted scholar of Mr. Wilson's foundation on 20 Jan. 1736. On 19 Jan. 1737, having taken his B.A. degree, he was admitted scholar of Mr. Freeman's foundation, and on 11 Dec. 1738 became a fellow of Lord Exeter's foundation. He was elected fellow on Mr. Diggon's foundation on 19 Feb. 1739, proceeded M.A. in 1741, and finally on 2 Nov. 1743 succeeded to a fellowship of the old foundation (college books). In 1759 he was presented by the college to the rectory of Hardingham, Norfolk, where he died on 7 Nov. 1794, aged 80 (Mon. Insc.; Gent. Mag. 1794, pt. ii. p. 1060). His wife Mary died on 21 June 1795, aged 75. Some of his correspondence with divines like Secker, Warburton (who advised him on his theological reading), Bagot, and Newton, and with the eminent Hebrew scholars, Newcome, Richard Grey, and Blayney, is printed in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ for 1819. pt.ii., and 1822, pt.i.; in Nichols's ‘Literary Anecdotes,’ vols. viii. ix.; and in Nichols's ‘Illustrations of Literature,’ vol. iv. Green published: 1. ‘The Song of Deborah reduced to metre; with a new translation and commentary,’ 4to, Cambridge, 1753. 2. ‘A new Translation of the Prayer of Habakkuk, the Prayer of Moses, and the cxxxix. Psalm; with a commentary,’ 4to, Cambridge, 1755. 3. ‘A new Translation of the Psalms … with notes … To which is added, A Dissertation on the last prophetick Words of Noah,' 8vo, Cambridge, 1762. 4. ‘A new Translation of Isaiah lii. 13 to the end of liii. … with notes,’ 4to, Cambridge, 1776. 5. ‘Poetical Parts of the Old Testament…newly translated … with notes,' 4to, Cambridge, 1781.
[Information kindly sent by the master of Clare and the rector of Hardingham; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes and Illustrations of Literaure.]
GREEN, Sir WILLIAM (1725–1811), general, was the eldest son of Godfrey Green, an Irish gentleman who married, at Aberdeen, Helen, sister of Adam Smith. Godfrey settled at Durham, but his son William was educated at Aberdeen by his mother's sisters. On 1 Jan. 1737 he received the warrant of a cadet gunner, and joined at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Warren. On 12 March 1743 he was appointed a practitioner engineer, and stationed at Portsmouth. Early in 1745 he joined the engineer brigade in Flanders, took part in all the operations of the campaign, and was present at the battle of Fontenoy. In 1746 he embarked with the expedition under St. Clair to the coast of Brittany, and was at the siege of L'Orient and the descent on Quiberon. On 2 Jan. 1747 he was promoted to be sub-engineer, and was again in the field in Flanders with local rank of engineer-in-ordinary. During the campaign he was present in the action of Sandberg, near Hulst, at the battle of Val, where he was wounded and taken prisoner, and at the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom from 13 July to 16 Sept. He drew four plans of this fortress, dated 1751, now in the British Museum. When the army left Flanders he remained with some other engineers to make a survey of the Austrian Netherlands. He, with a brother officer, made plans of the district between Bois-le-Duc and Geertruidenberg, showing the inundation, and also careful drawings of the galleries and mines of the fortress of Luxemburg. These are now in
