Florence Emily Green^{[1, 2]}

1862 - 1926  (63 years)

• Name	Florence Emily Green  [1]
  Birth	12 Apr 1862	Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Apr 1926	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia   [3]
  	Church of England H, Grave 33. Florence was buried with Matilda Green, her sister in law.
  		Florence Emily Green - grave 3 Media Date: 18 OCT 2022 Keywords: Picture
  		Florence Emily Green - grave 3 Media Date: 18 OCT 2022 Keywords: Picture
  Death	5 Apr 1926	Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia   [1]
  Person ID	I8339	DBH Twigs
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Rev Samuel Dutton Green Rev Samuel Dutton Green,   b. 1830, Baldock, Hertfordshire, England d. 1879, Victoria, Australia (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Eliza Dutton,   b. 4 Aug 1831, Bampton, Oxfordshire, England d. 21 Jun 1872, New Zealand (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	21 Mar 1854	City of London, London, England   [4, 5, 6]
  	Witnesses: William Dutton, Sophia Ann Dutton, Mary Dutton
  		Samuel Green & Eliza Dutton - marriage Media Date: 21 MAR 1854 Keywords: Marriage
  		Samuel Green & Eliza Dutton - marriage Media Date: 21 MAR 1854 Keywords: Marriage
  		London City - St Mary Aldermary Church Credit: https://alondoninheritance.com/ Keywords: Church
  		London City - St Mary Aldermary Church Keywords: Church
  Family ID	F4447	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  Florence Emily (1862-1926) was born on 12 April 1862 at Oamaru, New Zealand. She was educated by her parents and at a private school, Sorbonne, at South Yarra, Melbourne. Although one of the first women to sign the University of Melbourne's matriculation register, she did not take a degree there. She was, however, a Th.A. of the Australian College of Theology with first-class honours. Florence's life was devoted to her religion, to her brother Arthur and to the education of young women. In the early 1880s she paid for the boarding and tuition fees of young Ettie (Henry Handel) Richardson, who later caricatured her maliciously but accurately as 'Miss Isabella' in The Getting of Wisdom; Arthur was the irritable 'Mr Shepherd'. Florence moved to Maldon with Arthur in 1885 and in 1886 helped to found Trinity Church High School. She remained headmistress until 1889 and when Arthur moved to Geelong, she founded the Girls' High School there, the forerunner of The Hermitage. In 1895 she was first headmistress of the New England Girls' School; under her guidance it became one of the largest girls' boarding schools in Australia. In 1907 the diocese purchased the school from her and she went abroad, returning to Victoria in 1910. After acting as caretaker headmistress of Firbank Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Brighton, in 1911, in failing health she went to Ballarat and later lived at Greensborough, Ivanhoe and Murrumbeena. Florence Green was deeply religious. The basis of her life was prayer. She was also very practical and, like Arthur, a born teacher. Pedagogically she stressed good reading, religion and 'current affairs'; she was interested in the public questions of the day and up to the minute in her own reading. She possessed boundless mental and physical energy and determination. Brisk and cheerful, she had a warm smile and even at 50 her skin was unlined and her hair thick and shiny; her eyes were 'quite startlingly blue'. By nature however she was an ascetic. Florence Green never married. She died of Parkinson's disease at Murrumbeena on 5 April 1926 and her ashes were interred in Warringal cemetery, Heidelberg. Select Bibliography J. Forster, Address on Florence Emily Green's Death, St Peter's Cathedral, 11 April 1926 (Armidale, 1926); Ballarat Church Chronicle, July 1915; New England Girls' School, Chronicle, June 1926; Overland, 72 (1978), p 24; Ballarat Courier, 3, 5 July 1915; Armidale Chronicle, June 1926; Argus (Melbourne), 26 Oct 1944; Armidale Express, 11 Dec 1946; W. Green, Memorandum on New England Girls School and Florence Emily Green (manuscript, c1965, privately held); E. Summons, Memories of Florence Emily Green (manuscript, privately held); C. Wellard, An Appraisal of the Ideology of Florence Emily Green (manuscript, privately held). More on the resources Author: A. DE Q. Robin, Kelvin Grose Print Publication Details: A. DE Q. Robin, Kelvin Grose, 'Green, Florence Emily (1862 - 1926)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 90-91.

  
  

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