William Spotswood Green (10 September 1847 – 22 April 1919) was an
Irish
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naturalist, who specialised in
marine biology
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.
Born at
Youghal
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and educated at
Trinity College Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
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,
[Fallon, N.: ''The Armada in Ireland'', Wesleyan University Press 1978. .] he was ordained a priest in 1873. Already before he left the services of the Church in 1890, he had worked on marine biology. In the 1880s, he participated as a leading member in several research expeditions sponsored by the
Royal Irish Academy
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. In 1892, he became the Inspector of Fisheries. Combined with this work he was a Commissioner on the Congested Districts Board, where his intimate knowledge of human conditions in western Ireland was of great service. In 1914 he shook off the trammels of office, and retired to Westcove House, Caherdaniel,
County Kerry
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. There he died five years later.
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Green was also a member of the
Alpine Club (UK), English Alpine Club and became a mountain climber well-known especially in
Canada
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and
New Zealand
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.
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URL last accessed 2007-10-31. In 1882, he attempted with two
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guides a first ascent of
Mount Cook
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in New Zealand, but the party was forced back by bad weather shortly before they reached the top.
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Mount Cook - near ascent 1882
', South Canterbury
NewZealandGenWeb Project. URL last accessed 2007-10-31. At a dinner in their honour he proposed the "founding of a New Zealand Alpine Club", which eventually occurred in 1891. In the late 1880s Green did
survey
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work in the
Rocky Mountains
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of
British Columbia
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, including the
first ascent
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of
Mount Bonney
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in 1888.
Mount Green
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in
Glacier National Park of the Selkirk Mountains is named in his honor.
Selected publications
*Green, W. S.: ''The High Alps of New Zealand. Or a Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes With an Ascent of Mount Cook.'' Macmillan & Co., London 1883.
*Green, W. S.:
Among the Selkirk glaciers: being the account of a rough survey in the Rocky Mountain regions of British Columbia', Macmillan & Co., London 1890.
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References
External links
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1847 births
1919 deaths
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Irish naturalists
Irish biologists
Irish mountain climbers
People from Youghal