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William S. Green
Reverend William Spotswood Green was born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland in 1847. He was educated in Trinity College, Dublin, and entered the priesthood in 1873. He was appointed Rector in Carrigaline, County Cork in 1878. His two principle interests however were in the marine environment and in mountain climbing. His climbing exploits included climbing in Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand and British Columbia. He was one of the first men to attempt Mount Cook in New Zealand, but only got within 50 metres of the summit in 1882. Green's interest in marine matters led him to get involved in three dredging expeditions off the south-west coast of Ireland between 1885 and 1888, while still maintaining his post as rector in Carrigaline. In 1890 he left the priesthood to become Inspector of Fisheries, based in Dublin, when he led a survey of fishing grounds on the Irish coast which was funded by the Royal Dublin Society. Green continued to work as a Fisheries Inspector until he retired in 1914, moving to a home on the coast of Kerry where he died in 1919.

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The High Alps of New Zealand, 1883. Report of a deep-sea trawling cruise off the S.W. coast of Ireland, 1889. Among the Selkirk Glaciers, 1890. The Wrecks of the Spanish Armada on the Coast of Ireland, 1906.