Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet (4 March 1831 – 30 March 1923) was an English ironmaster and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.
He was the son of Edward Green, an engineer who ran E. Green & Son in Wakefield and patented “Green’s Economiser,” a device that recycles heat from boilers. Edward Green was educated at West Riding Proprietary School and in Germany, and he worked as an engineer in his father’s business. He served in the 1st West Yorkshire Yeomanry, rising from lieutenant to captain.
In 1865 he and his wife leased Heath Old Hall near Wakefield, which they developed. In 1877 he bought the Snettisham Estate in Norfolk and built Ken Hill as a shooting lodge. He became a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and served as a justice of the peace in Yorkshire and in Norfolk. He was a Governor of Wakefield Grammar School from 1874 to 1878.
Politically, he was elected MP for Wakefield in 1874 but was unseated on petition. He unsuccessfully stood for Pontefract in 1880. He returned to Parliament by winning the Wakefield by-election in July 1885 and held the seat until he stepped down in 1892. He was created a Baronet on 5 March 1886, of Wakefield and Ken Hill.
In 1859 he married Mary Lycett, daughter of William Edward Lycett of Bowdon, Cheshire, bringing the Lycett name into the family. Lady Green died in King's Lynn on 7 November 1902, in her 67th year. The couple had two sons.
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