John Green (agriculturalist)

Sir John Little Green OBE (6 September 1862 – 15 January 1953) was a British agriculturalist described in his Times obituary as a "champion of rural workers, both on the farm and in rural industries".[1] He was secretary of the Rural Labourers' League for 32 years and editor of its organ, The Rural World.[2]

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours[3] and knighted in 1919.

References

  1. ↑ Source Citation: "Sir John Green." Times [London, England] 16 January 1953: 8. The Times Digital Archive
  2. ↑ ‘GREEN, Sir John (Little)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 29 April 2014
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30730. p. 6701. 7 June 1918.
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