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GREEN CROSS SOCIETY 



Elsmere, Green appears as Mr.Gray. 

 His teaching is contained in his 

 Prolegomena to Ethics and hig 

 Lectures on the Principles of Poli 

 tical Obligation. 



Green, VALENTINE (1739-1813). 

 British engraver. Born at Salford, 

 near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 

 Oct. 16, 1739, 

 he refused tc 

 take- up law, 

 and studied 

 line engraving 

 under Robert 

 Hancock of 

 Worcester. 

 Later on he 

 came to Lon- 

 Valentine Green, don, took up 

 British engraver mezzotint, and 

 After Abbott before he was 



thirty achieved unqualified success. 

 His prints after Benjamin West's 

 Return of Regulus to Carthage and 

 Hannibal swearing eternal enmity 

 to the Romans were the largest 

 mezzotints until then produced. 

 He translated Sir Joshua Reynolds's 

 portraits with rare sympathy and 

 skill, and proofs in prime condition 

 now letch very high prices. He ex- 

 hibited at the R.A. in 1774, and in 

 1775 was elected associate engraver 

 and became mezzotint engraver to 

 George III. 



In 1789 the elector of Bavaria 

 gave him the sole right to engrave 

 and publish prints after the orig- 

 inals in the Diisseldorf Gallery, but 

 he had only completed 22 plates 

 when the gallery was destroyed in 

 1798 during the siege of the town 

 by the French. On the founda- 

 tion of the British Institution in 

 1805 he was appointed keeper! He 

 died in London on June 29, 1813. 

 His plates number 400, and though 

 he is best known by his portraits, he 

 engraved many subjects by the Old 

 Masters, such as Rubens' Descent 

 from the Cross, Domenichino's Vir- 

 gin and Child, Murillo's S. John 

 with the Lamb, Ludovico Carracci's 

 Entombment of Jesus, and Agos- 

 tino Carracci's Venus and Cupid. 

 He engraved portraits after Van 

 Dyck, George Romney, and others, 

 besides those by Reynolds. 



Greenaway, KATE (1846-1901). 

 British artist. Born in Hoxton, 

 London, March 17, 1846, her father, 

 John Greenaway, being a well- 

 known wood 

 engraver, she 

 studied at 

 the South Ken- 

 sington Art 

 School, Heath - 

 erley's Acad- 

 emy, and the 

 Slade School 

 Her earlier 



efforts were - Kate Ureenawayi 

 limited to British artist 



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Kate Greenaway. P Peeped In It, a characteristic 

 Greenaway drawing from an alphabet series 



S. Kensington Museum 



valentines and Christmas cards, agricultural 

 although she exhibited occasionally, 



court house, the 

 municipal and 

 federal buildings, 

 the public library, 

 and several hos- 

 pitals and educa- 

 tionalinstitutions, 

 while not far 

 away is the state 

 reformatory. 



An important 

 rly. centre, its har- 

 bour is accessible 

 to the largest lake 

 vessels, and a 

 large trade is 

 carried on in coal, 

 i umber, fish, and 

 grain. It contains 

 rly. repair shops, 

 lumber yards, and 

 canneries, and 

 manufactures 

 implements, ma- 

 chinery, gas engines, flour, bricks, 



for the first time at the Dudley and tiles. Green Bay stands near 



Gallery in 1868, and at the Royal 

 Academy in 1877. 



The work with which Kate 

 Greenaway's name is chiefly identi- 

 fied consists of drawings, chiefly in 

 colour, but often in black and white, 

 illustrating stories and poems for 

 children. The girls and boys are 

 garbed in the costume of the early 



the site of an old Indian village and 

 was permanently settled about 

 1745. It was incorporated in 1838 

 and became a city in 1854. Pop. 

 30,017. 



Green Cloth, BOARD OF. De- 

 partment of the British royal house- 

 hold. It is presided over by the 

 lord steward, who has under him 



19th century, and the resulting the master of the household and 



pictures are quaint and attractive, other officials. It is charged with 



being saved from the pedantry of the duty of supervising the house- 



archaism by the juvenility of the hold, including the kitchen, arrange- 



figures and charm of composition. 

 Her work enjoyed an immense 



ments of the court, etc., the office 

 being at Buckingham Palace. It is 



vogue, and for a long time " Kate so called because of the covering 



Greenaway " frocks were the fash- 

 ion for little girls. From 1880 

 almost to her death at Hampstead, 

 Nov. 6, 1901, not a year passed 

 without several books from her 

 hand. Some she wrote as well as 

 illustrated, such as Under the Win- 

 dow, 1879, and Marigold Marsh, 



of the table at which the lord 

 steward and his subordinates sat. 

 See Lord Steward. 



Green Cross Society. Corps of 

 women motor drivers in the Great 

 War. It was established in June, 

 1915, and was officially known as 

 the Women's Reserve Ambulance. 



1885, the latter perhaps the most Members drove either their own or 



the corps' vehicles, and specialised 

 in connecting the ambulance trams 

 arriving in London with certain 



successful of the series from 

 commercial standpoint. 



Greenback. Popular name of 

 the paper money first issued by the hospitals, mostly in the suburbs, 

 U.S.A. during the Civil War, and so but were trained and equipped to 

 called because the printing on the render ambulance service in any 

 back of the notes is in green ink. direction. 



Included in the membership were 



Green Bay. Opening of Lake 

 Michigan, penetrating for 120 m. 



hundreds of girls, most of them 



S.W. into Wisconsin, U.S.A. It engaged in business, who devoted 

 has a greatest breadth of 20 m. their leisure to work in hospitals 

 and an extreme depth of 120 ft., and canteens, or who acted as 

 and derives its name from the station guides for returning sol- 

 colour of its water. The Fox river diers. They also rendered valuable 

 enters at its head, and its mouth is help during the air raids on Lon- 

 obstructed by a number of islands, don, and supplied large numbers 

 Green Bay. City of Wisconsin, of recruits to other corps. A detach- 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Brown co. ment went as ambulance drivers 

 A port of entry at the head of with Dr. Elsie Inglis (q.v.), of the 

 Green Bay, 112 m. N. of Milwau- Scottish Women's Hospital, to 

 kee, it is served by the Chicago, Russia and Rumania. The uni- 

 Milwaukee and St. Paul and other form was of green cloth, hence the 

 rlys. Its chief buildings are the popular designation of the corps. 



