Giles Green
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Giles Green of Allington in Dorset was a 17th-century English Member of Parliament (MP).
Green was a prominent citizen of Weymouth, and the town records show payments to him "towards a key and slipp which he hath built upon the town ground on the East side of his house in Hell Lane"; he was one of the founders of the Dorchester Company, an early venture at colonising New England. He represented Weymouth in the Parliaments of 1621, 1625 and 1626; then in the Long Parliament, he was MP for Corfe Castle. He became Receiver of Yorkshire, and from 1645 was a Commissioner of the Navy. However, in December 1648 Green was one of the MPs excluded from Parliament in Pride's Purge.
His son later became clerk of the New River Company. His daughter, Katherine, married another Dorset MP, Roger Hill, in 1635.
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- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
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