Brief profile of A.D.Greene by Don Ambrose

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Player:

AD Greene

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GREENE, Alan Douglas.
Amateur.
Born at Brandeston, Suffolk, 15th April 1856.
Died at Calverley, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 18th June 1928.
The son of the Rev. Joseph Greene, of Clifton, he was educated at Clifton College, where he was a member of the cricket eleven. He went up to Exeter College, Oxford, where he played cricket for the University 1877-80, being captain in 1880. He played in 40 first-class matches, including 21 for Gloucestershire. He also played rugby for the county. In 1905 he was living at 3 Albert Road, Clifton and by 1925 at St Martin’s Rectory, Canterbury, Kent.
At the time of the 1881 Census he was living at Rostrevor Road, Clifton, with his father, Joseph aged 56 born in Ireland a Clergyman, Church of England, “without cure of souls,” and his mother Olivia aged 60 also born in Ireland. His sister Evelina D. is aged 28, born at Halton, Buckinghamshire, his elder brother Charles D. is aged 26, born in Ireland, he is aged 24, an undergraduate of Oxford, as is his younger brother, Walter L., aged 20, born at Butley, Derbyshire. There are four domestic servants.

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)