Richard Edward Green

"Green, son of Edmund Green, came out in the Mary Anne in 1859 and was a successful builder. He gained prominence in the 1920s, running a weekly column in the Star in which he and other elderly citizens wrote in a lively manner about the Christchurch of their youth, and traded insults about who remembered correctly the details of some long-gone family, event or building. The articles have been gathered together as the ‘Canterbury Pilgrims’ and Early Settlers’ Association scrapbook’ and are held at Christchurch City Libraries. In the 1930s Green was again in the public eye as the donor of clock towers to the boroughs of New Brighton and Sumner. The clock towers were given in memory of Edmund Green. Richard Green endeavoured to give a statue of James Edward FitzGerald to the Christchurch City Council and it was eventually accepted by the Christchurch Domains Board and placed near Rolleston Avenue and on the boundary of board and council land. The Green family took legal and extra-legal action, claiming that their husband and father was, through his donations, divesting himself of his estate and cutting them out of their inheritance. There was much acrimonious correspondence on the subject." from the Barbadoes Street cemetery guide http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Cemeteries/Barbadoes/...