GREELY 



Adolphus W. Greely, 

 American explorer 



Greely, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON 

 (b. 1844). An American explorer. 

 Born at Newburyport, Mass., 

 March 27, 1844, 

 he served in 

 the Civil War 

 (1861-65). Re- 

 maining in the 

 army, he be- 

 came a briga- 

 dier-general in 

 1887. He was 

 appointed, i n 

 1881, to com- 

 mand a polar 

 expedition, 

 and with a N " party oi 25 men 

 reached the then farthest North 

 (83 24'), crossing Grinnell Land 

 to the Polar Sea. Two relief expe- 

 ditions failed to find them, and 

 when the third succeeded, only 

 seven of his party were alive. 



Greely was largely employed in 

 the signal arrangements of the 

 Spanish-American War, was in 

 charge of the relief operations at 

 San Francisco after the earth- 

 quake in 1906, and was promoted 

 major-general the same year. He 

 retired in 1908, his Three Years 

 of Arctic Service, 1883, giving an 

 account of his expedition. 



Green. River of Kentucky, 

 U.S.A. Rising in the centre of the 

 state, it flows for 300 m. W. and 

 N.W. to the Ohio river, about 7 m. 

 above Evansville. Locks and dams 

 have made the river navigable for 

 small steamers to Greensburg, 

 about 200 m. upstream. 



Green. Headstream of the Colo- 

 rado river, U.S.A. Rising on the 

 slopes of the Wind river range in 

 Wyoming, it follows a S. course 

 through the Uinta Mts., in which 

 it has cut a series of deep canons, 

 and joins the Grand river in the 

 S.E. of Utah to form the Colorado. 

 Its length is about 710 m. 



Green, ALICE SOPHIA AMELIA 

 (b. 1848). British historical wri- 

 ter. Born at Kells, Ireland, 7th 

 child of Ed- , 

 ward Adderley | 

 Stopford, arch- 

 deacon of 

 Meath, she 

 married, in 

 1877, John 

 Richard Green. 

 Her writings 

 include Henry 

 II, 1888 ; Town 

 Life in the Fif- 

 teenth Century, 1894; The Mak- 

 ing of Ireland and Its Undoing, 

 1908; Irish Nationality, 1911 ; and 

 Woman's Place in the World of 

 Letters, 1913. She edited several 

 editions of J. R. Green's Short 

 History of the English People, in- 

 cluding that of 1916, which con- 

 tains an additional chapter. 



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Alice S. A. Green, 

 British historian 



Charles Green, 

 British aeronaut 



Green, ANNA KATHARINE (b. 

 1846). American novelist. Born at 

 /Brooklyn, Nov. 11, 1846, she was 

 the author of numerous stories of 

 crime and criminal detection. She 

 made an enormous hit both in 

 America and in Great Britain with 

 her first novel, The Leavenworth 

 Case, 1878, a story with a most 

 ingenious plot. Her later stories 

 include The Sword of Damocles, 

 1881, The Forsaken Inn, 1890, 

 and The Filigree Ball, 1903. 



Green, CHARLES (1785-1870). 

 British aeronaut. Born in London, 

 Jan. 31, 1785, he interested himself 

 in aeronautics 

 and, on the 

 coronation of 

 George IV, in 

 1821, was the 

 first to ascend 

 i n a carbur- 

 retted hydro- 

 gen gas bal- 

 loon, from 

 Green Park. 

 After this, he 

 made many ascents, and in 1836 

 ascended from Vauxhall in his Great 

 Nassau balloon, taking eight pas- 

 sengers and remaining aloft an hour 

 and a half. In 1838 he made two 

 ascents from Vauxhall, attaining 

 19,335 ft. and 27,146ft. respectively. 

 His last ascent was in 1852, and 

 he died March 26, 1870. Green de- 

 monstrated the possibility of using 

 coal gas in balloons, and invented 

 the guide rope. 



Green, HETTY HOWI.AND ROB- 

 INSON (1835-1916). American finan- 

 cier. In 1865 she inherited a large 

 fortune from her father, Edward 

 M. Robinson, and two years later 

 married Edward H. Green. She 

 had remarkable business ability, 

 and managed, without outside help 

 or advice, large estates and an enor- 

 mous business in stocks and shares. 

 She died July 3, 1916, leaving a 

 fortune computed at 20,000,000. 

 Green, JOHN RICHARD (1837- 

 83). British historian. Born in 

 Oxford, Dec. 12, 1837, he was edu- 

 cated at Mag- r ~-~j 

 dalen College f 1^ 

 School and 

 Jesus College. | 

 He became a | 

 clergyman and I 

 held an incum- I 

 bency at Step- 

 ney, but ill- 1 



health com- ^nn *i^a ui-eeu. 

 pelled him to British historian 

 abandon par- After j. Sandyt 

 ish work, and for a little time he was 

 librarian at Lambeth. He had soon 

 a reputation by his contributions to 

 The Saturday Review, and from 

 about 1868 to his death he devoted 

 himself to historical study. He 

 died at Mentone, March 7, 1883. 



Green's great work is his Short 

 History of the English People, 

 perhaps the most popular work of 

 its kind ; it appeared in 1874, and 

 there have been many later edi- 

 tions. In this he avoided the con- 

 ventional historical divisions, and 

 laid more stress upon important 

 social and religious movements 

 than upon kings, wars, and treaties. 

 But its great attraction is its style, 

 for it abounds in passages that 

 linger in the mind. Its accuracy 

 cannot be seriously questioned, but 

 its author's knowledge of the later 

 centuries was hardly equal to that 

 of the earlier ones, and certain 

 theories are pressed too far. 



His more detailed Making of 

 England, 1882, and Conquest of 

 England, 1883, are of great value to 

 students of the Anglo-Saxon period. 

 He was the author of several vol- 

 umes of Essays and miscellaneous 

 writings, and helped to found The 

 English Historical Review. See 

 The Letters of J. R. Green, ed. 

 Leslie Stephen, 1901. 



Green, THOMAS HILL (1836-82). 

 British philosopher. Born at Bir- 

 kin, Yorkshire, April 7, 1836, he 

 was educated at Rugby and Balliol 

 College, Oxford. His father was a 

 clergyman, and he claimed descent 

 from Oliver Cromwell. In 1860 he 

 was elected to a fellowship at Bal- 

 liol, and in Oxford he remained all 

 his life. He was on the tutorial staff 

 at Balliol, and from 1878 was pro- 

 fessor of moral philosophy in the 

 university. He died March 26, 1882. 



He was the most penetrating 

 influence in the Oxford of his day, 

 and, through his pupils, his influence 

 on English philosophy, especially 

 political and moral philosophy, was 

 profound. In politics he was a 

 Liberal, in some matters an ad- 

 vanced Radical. He took great in- 

 terest in educational matters and 

 was actively concerned in social 

 movements for the betterment of 

 the working classes. As a philoso- 

 pher he was, under the influence of 

 Kant, Hegel, and Fichte, the chief 

 representative of English critical 

 idealism, opposed to the empiricism 

 of John Stuart Mill and Spencer. 



Knowledge, to him, was the re- 

 production of an eternal mind in 

 human personality. . The entity 

 which embraces all relations of ex- 

 perience is the infinite, absolute 

 subject, the eternal, pure self-con- 

 sciousness, the synthetic principle 

 of unity which manifests itself in 

 the individual. As a political phil- 

 osopher he accepted in the main 

 Hegel's theory of the state, but 

 adapted it in certain particulars to ' 

 meet his own views. It is only 

 in the state of society that the 

 individual can find the rightful 

 sphere for his activities. In Robert 



