Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet (4 March 1831 – 30 March 1923) was an English ironmaster and a Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1892.

Green was the son of Edward Green, a Yorkshire ironmaster who founded E. Green & Son based in Wakefield. His father patented "Green's Economiser" which was a device for recycling heat from boilers that previously went to waste. Green was educted at West Riding Proprietary School and in Germany and became an engineer in his father's business. He was in the 1st West Yorkshire Yeomanry as a lieutenant and later captain. In 1865 he and his wife, leased Heath Old Hall, an Elizabethan House near Wakefield which they set about developing and furnishing. In 1877 Green purchased the Snettisham

Snettisham

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 Estate in North West Norfolk. He built a new house, Ken Hill, primarily as a shooting lodge. Green became a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

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 and was a JP

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 for the West Riding of Yorkshire and for Norfolk. Between 1874 and 1878, Green was a Governor of Wakefield Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield

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At the 1874 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1874

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 Green was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Wakefield

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, but he was unseated on petition. In 1880

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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 he stood in Pontefract

Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)

Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons briefly in the 13th century and again from 1621 until 1885, and one member from 1885 to 1974.-In the unreformed...

, but was not elected. He returned to Wakefield at a by-election in July 1885, and won the seat, holding it he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1892 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1892

The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won many more seats than in the 1886 general election...

. On 5 March 1886 he was created Baronet of Wakefield and Ken Hill

Green Baronets

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Green married Mary Lycett, daughter of Edward Lycett of Bowdon

Bowdon, Greater Manchester

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  Cheshire in 1859, introducing the name Lycett into the family. His eldest son Edward Lycett Green achieved a certain amount of notoriety as he was involved in the Royal Baccarat Scandal

Royal Baccarat Scandal

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 in 1890. Edward succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father.

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