Giles Green was an English politician who sat in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...

at various times between 1621 and 1648. Green was the son of John Greene a merchant of Dorchester and a friend of Rev John White.Members of the Dorchester Company 1624-1626
/ref> He 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"''. In 1621 Green was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Weymouth. The "Visitation of Dorset" in 1623 disclaimed him and he is listed at Dorchester as having "usurped the name of Gentleman without authoritie". In 1624, he was one of the founders of the

Dorchester Company The Dorchester Company of Adventurers was a Joint Stock Company established in 1623 in England to enable the English colonisation of North America It was based in Dorchester, Dorset, near the English Channel, and was founded at the instigation of t ...

, an early venture at colonising

New England New England is a region consisting of six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York (state), New York to the west and by the ...

. He became MP for Weymouth again in 1625 after the elected representative found another seat. He was re-elected MP for Weymouth again in 1626. In 1628 he was elected MP for

Corfe Castle Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the Corfe Castle (village), village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and ...

and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Green was of

Allington, Dorset Allington is a neighbourhood of Bridport in Dorset, England, immediately north-west of Bridport town centre on the west bank of the River Brit. Formerly a separate village and civil parish, Allington and Bridport had grown to be contiguous by th ...

, but moved to Dorchester on 24 September 1634 because of his own and his wife's sickness. In November 1640, Green was elected MP for Corfe Castle in the

Long Parliament The Long Parliament was an Parliament of England, English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660, making it the longest-lasting Parliament in English and British history. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened f ...

. He became Receiver of Yorkshire, and from 1645 was a Commissioner of the Navy. He was secluded in 1648 under

Pride's Purge Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England. Despite defeat in the ...

. Green married Elizabeth Hill of Poundsford Park in Somerset. His son later became clerk of the

New River Company The New River Company, formally The Governor and Company of the New River brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London, was a privately-owned water supply company in London, England, originally formed around 1609 and incorporated in 1619 by roy ...

. His daughter, Katherine married Roger Hill, another Dorset MP, in 1635. Another daughter Sarah married John Bland of London as she named her son Giles Bland after her father. This grandson would later become a participant in

Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American India ...

(1676–1677), for which he was executed.

References

*D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Politicians from Weymouth, Dorset English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1625 English MPs 1626 English MPs 1628–1629 English MPs 1640–1648 Lords of the Admiralty Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis {{1640-England-MP-stub