Frank Green

Who was Frank Green?

Frank Green, the second son of Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet, a Yorkshire ironmaster and Mary Lycett, was a British industrialist. His father, Edward Green was a Conservative politician and wealthy industrialist. His grandfather Edward Green had invented a fuel economiser which was very successful during the Industrial Revolution which made the family fortune and helped him make connections to the Royal Family. Green took over his family's factory producing the Green Economiser in Wakefield. Green was educated at Eton College and then the University of Oxford. Green never married however there were rumours of a liaison between Green and Lady Diana Manners, a local actress. However Manners turned Green down in favour of his older brother, Edward Lycett Green who had inherited their father's land while Frank took over the family business. In 1912 Green was offered the position of Lord Mayor of York however he turned the position down. Green would later become close friends with the actress Ellen Terry and became an honorary lieutenant colonel of the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons in 1906. Green would spend his free time travelling around Europe in his Rolls-Royce.