Green was the son of
Edward Green (engineer), a Yorkshire ironmaster who founded E. Green & Son based in
Wakefield and patented "Green's
Economiser". This was a device for recycling heat from boilers that previously went to waste. Green was educated at
West Riding Proprietary School and in Germany, and became an engineer in his father's business. He served 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 Estate in North West Norfolk, and built a new house,
Ken Hill, primarily as a shooting lodge. Green became a director of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and was a
JP for the West Riding of Yorkshire and for Norfolk. Between 1874 and 1878, Green was a Governor of
Wakefield Grammar School. In the
1874 general election, Green was elected as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Wakefield, but he was unseated on petition. In
1880, he stood in
Pontefract, but was not elected. He returned to Wakefield at a by-election in July 1885, and won the seat, On 5 March 1886, he was created a
Baronet 'of Wakefield and Ken Hill'. ==Family==