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Miss Georgina Greene When Paul Ubbelohde became well-established as Head of Department at Imperial College he advertised for a departmental secretary. He needed “a secretary or personal assistant who firmly controls access and rations unexpected intrusions […] Miss Georgina Greene acquired world-wide renown for her effectiveness in that role during Ubbelohde’s period at Imperial College. Gay notes that "She wielded power over the staff and was understandably resented". Some years earlier, Miss Greene was involved in an unfortunate episode. In February 1957 Lord Worsley (John Edward Pelham, the 7th Earl of Yarborough) announced his forthcoming marriage to Georgina,“secretary to a professor in London”. Less than two months later it was announced, without explanation, that the marriage would not now take place. On 12 December of that year Lord Worsley married Florence Ann Petronel Duffin (née Upton) at
Caxton Hall. Greene was born in
Abbeyleix, Ireland in 1925. She was given considerable responsibility while working for Ubbelohde. She worked with
Dudley Maurice Newitt on the design and decoration of the Senior Common Room in the Roderick Hill building. nestles in the beautiful rolling Sussex countryside with
Rudyard Kipling’s house just visible on the horizon. [She] was left to bid for the farm during one of Professor Ubbelohde’s absences in South America and was so confident of his approval that she exceeded the previously agreed maximum by a generous margin”. in appreciation of the life of H. E. Professor A R J P Ubbelohde CBE FRS the sum of £30,000”. Miss Georgina Mary Greene died on 9 April 2015 at the White Lodge Care Home in
Braydon, Wiltshire; she left an estate with a net worth of £1,480,000. Georgina was buried, as directed in her will, at the church of the Blessed Mary and St Nicholas in
Etchingham, Sussex. She is in an unmarked grave to the right of that of her former employer, Professor Ubbelohde, placed there at her request. "Georgina Greene is remembered in Etchingham for her very generous donation to the Church ... It allowed us to redecorate the interior of our beautiful Grade I listed building".
Ubbelohde Fund The Fund (more properly, the Ubbelohde Bequest) was left to the Company by Professor Ubbelohde under his will. The Bequest was itself registered as a separate charity in December 1995, with the Mercers’ Company as corporate trustee. The charity number was 1051484 and was for the advancement of secondary education in England and in particular for the benefit of St Paul’s School. Grants to St Paul’s School were paid regularly through the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2016 the charity’s assets were transferred to St Paul’s School. ==Memorial Service==